Re: [PATCH v2] drm/bridge: sil_sii8620: make remote control optional.

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On 04.03.2019 03:13, Life is hard, and then you die wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 05:33:55PM -0800, Ronald Tschalär wrote:
>> commit d6abe6df706c (drm/bridge: sil_sii8620: do not have a dependency
>> of RC_CORE) changed the driver to select both RC_CORE and INPUT.
>> However, this causes problems with other drivers, in particular an input
>> driver that depends on MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI (to be added in a separate
>> commit):
>>
>>   drivers/clk/Kconfig:9:error: recursive dependency detected!
>>   drivers/clk/Kconfig:9:        symbol COMMON_CLK is selected by MFD_INTEL_LPSS
>>   drivers/mfd/Kconfig:566:      symbol MFD_INTEL_LPSS is selected by MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI
>>   drivers/mfd/Kconfig:580:      symbol MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI is implied by KEYBOARD_APPLESPI
>>   drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:73:    symbol KEYBOARD_APPLESPI depends on INPUT
>>   drivers/input/Kconfig:8:      symbol INPUT is selected by DRM_SIL_SII8620
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig:83:    symbol DRM_SIL_SII8620 depends on DRM_BRIDGE
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig:1:     symbol DRM_BRIDGE is selected by DRM_PL111
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig:1:      symbol DRM_PL111 depends on COMMON_CLK
>>
>> According to the docs and general consensus, select should only be used
>> for non user-visible symbols, but both RC_CORE and INPUT are
>> user-visible. Furthermore almost all other references to INPUT
>> throughout the kernel config are depends, not selects. For this reason
>> the first part of this change reverts commit d6abe6df706c.
>>
>> In order to address the original reason for commit d6abe6df706c, namely
>> that not all boards use the remote controller functionality and hence
>> should not need have to deal with RC_CORE, the second part of this
>> change now makes the remote control support in the driver optional and
>> contingent on RC_CORE being defined. And with this the hard dependency
>> on INPUT also goes away as that is only needed if RC_CORE is defined
>> (which in turn already depends on INPUT).
>>
>> CC: Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Ronald Tschalär <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Resending this, as I somehow managed to forget to cc dri-devel.
>> Apologies for the duplication.
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>>  - completely remove dependencies on both RC_CORE and INPUT in Kconfig,
>>  - make remote control functionality in driver contingent on RC_CORE
>>    being defined
>>
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig       |  2 --
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> [snip]
>
> Is there anything I can do to help get this reviewed and moved forward?


Addressing my comments [1] ? :)

Ah I see, for some reasons (my mistake apparently) my response was not
sent to you, sorry.

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/28/258


Regards

Andrzej


>
>
>   Cheers,
>
>   Ronald
>
>
>




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