Enabling the CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION Kconfig symbol can lead to linker
errors, if CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER is built-in but CONFIG_FB as a module.
Because in that case the drm_kms_helper.o object will have references to
symbols that are defined in the fb.ko module, i.e:
$ make bzImage modules
DESCEND objtool
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/generated/compile.h
GEN .version
CHK include/generated/compile.h
UPD include/generated/compile.h
CC init/version.o
AR init/built-in.a
LD vmlinux.o
MODPOST vmlinux.symvers
MODINFO modules.builtin.modinfo
GEN modules.builtin
LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
ld: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.o: in function `drm_fb_helper_resume_worker':
drm_fb_helper.c:(.text+0x2a0): undefined reference to `fb_set_suspend'
...
To prevent this, make following changes to the config option dependencies:
* Depend on FB && !(DRM_KMS_HELPER=y && FB=m), to avoid invalid configs.
* Depend on DRM_KMS_HELPER instead selecting it, to avoid circular deps.
Reported-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This fixes linker errors found when building the Fedora kernel package
for the s390x architecture:
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/9849/77859849/build.log
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
index cea777ae7fb9..9a21e57b4a0d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ config DRM_DEBUG_DP_MST_TOPOLOGY_REFS
config DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION
bool "Enable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver"
depends on DRM
- depends on FB
- select DRM_KMS_HELPER
+ depends on FB && !(DRM_KMS_HELPER=y && FB=m)
+ depends on DRM_KMS_HELPER
select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
--
2.31.1
