On Thursday 12 June 2014 16:50:20 Russell King wrote: > Rather than DRM_PANEL_LD9040 selecting SPI, which then results in an > increase in the probability of Kconf reporting circular dependencies > (we're one "select" away from that right now), make this depend on > SPI instead. This is akin to having some driver select DRM. > > Having some drivers depend on a subsystem, and other drivers select a > subsystem is a recipe for circular dependencies, and there's really no > need for it. > > The potential circular dependency (which can be caused today by the > addition of selecting DRM_PANEL from DRM_IMX_LDB) is: > > symbol DMADEVICES is selected by SAMSUNG_DMADEV > symbol SAMSUNG_DMADEV is selected by S3C64XX_PL080 > symbol S3C64XX_PL080 is selected by SPI_S3C64XX > symbol SPI_S3C64XX depends on SPI > symbol SPI is selected by DRM_PANEL_LD9040 > symbol DRM_PANEL_LD9040 depends on DRM_PANEL > symbol DRM_PANEL is selected by DRM_IMX_LDB > symbol DRM_IMX_LDB depends on MFD_SYSCON > symbol MFD_SYSCON is selected by POWER_RESET_KEYSTONE > symbol POWER_RESET_KEYSTONE depends on POWER_SUPPLY > symbol POWER_SUPPLY is selected by HID_SONY > symbol HID_SONY depends on NEW_LEDS > symbol NEW_LEDS is selected by BACKLIGHT_ADP8860 > symbol BACKLIGHT_ADP8860 depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE > symbol BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE is selected by FB_MX3 > symbol FB_MX3 depends on MX3_IPU > symbol MX3_IPU depends on DMADEVICES > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
