Re: [PATCH 7/8] drm/bridge: fix dependency for lvds-encoder

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On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Friday, 25 May 2018 18:50:14 EEST Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The DRM panel bridge code is built into the kms helpers module, so we
>> get a link error when trying to use it from a built-in driver while the
>> kms helper is a loadable module:
>>
>> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/lvds-encoder.o: In function `lvds_encoder_probe':
>> lvds-encoder.c:(.text+0x124): undefined reference to
>> `devm_drm_panel_bridge_add'
>>
>> This adds a the same dependency in the lvds-encoder that we use for all
>> the other users of the panel bridge. I did not bisect the problem, but
>> from inspection it seems to date back to the patch that separated out
>> the panel bridge from lvds encoder.
>>
>> Fixes: 13dfc0540a57 ("drm/bridge: Refactor out the panel wrapper from the
>> lvds-encoder bridge.") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig
>> index 6caa47834194..cf47bfa7a050 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig
>> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ config DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC
>>  config DRM_LVDS_ENCODER
>>       tristate "Transparent parallel to LVDS encoder support"
>>       depends on OF
>> +     select DRM_KMS_HELPER
>>       select DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE
>>       help
>>         Support for transparent parallel to LVDS encoders that don't require
>
> Wouldn't it be better to apply the following ?
>
> config DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE
>         def_bool y
>         depends on DRM_BRIDGE
> -       depends on DRM_KMS_HELPER
> +       select DRM_KMS_HELPER
>         select DRM_PANEL
>         help
>            DRM bridge wrapper of DRM panels
>
> Otherwise you'll potentially have to patch every user of DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE as
> done in this patch.

Select isn't recursive, so this won't work unfortunately :-/
-Daniel


> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart
>
>
>
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