Hi On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:14 AM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Fonts don't depend on CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE at all. Remove that. >> Besides, CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT is 'select'ed anyway, so the dependencies >> aren't checked by most higher-level options. > > CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT is indeed selected, but the other options are about > which fonts to include by default. No dependencies are bypassed by the select. Indeed, I missed that, sorry. > Without the "depends on FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE", people who don't > have FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE set, but have set any of these: > > config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI > select FONT_SUPPORT > > config VIDEO_VIVI > select FONT_SUPPORT > select FONT_8x16 > > config SOLO6X10 > select FONT_SUPPORT > select FONT_8x16 > > config USB_SISUSBVGA > select FONT_SUPPORT > ... > select FONT_8x16 > > config SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE > select FONT_SUPPORT > > config STI_CONSOLE > select FONT_SUPPORT > > will now get more (unused) fonts in their kernel image. Why would they get more unused fonts? All those fonts are "default n" (except for some arch-specific stuff and 8x8 and obviously 8x16). I don't mind if we drop this, but it makes font-selection impossible if fbcon is disabled, which is kinda unexpected. Thanks David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
