On 15.04.2019 10:12, 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> Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx> If there are no objections I will take it to drm-misc tomorrow. -- Regards Andrzej
