On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Archit Taneja <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/10/2015 03:35 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 03:22:49PM +0530, Archit Taneja wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 03/10/2015 03:17 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: >>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 03:11:28PM +0530, Archit Taneja wrote: >>> DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER selects that for us, right? >> >> Hm right I've missed that. Reminds me that you need one more patch at the >> end to remove all the various select DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER from all drm >> drivers. Otherwise this knob here won't work by default if you e.g. select >> radeon. In general we can't mix explicit options with menu entries with a >> select. > > I was trying that out. Removing DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER and having > DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION disabled breaks drivers which use FB stuff > internally in their respective xyz_fbdev.c files. > > Are you saying that we should remove DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER for such drivers > and replace them with 'select DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION'?
Slightly tangential: As a rule of thumb, you should not "select" anything that is visible in menuconfig or has dependencies [1]. This will break the build eventually, and attempts to fix it are troublesome [2]. BR, Jani. [1] Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt [2] http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected] -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

