Re: [PATCH] s390/console: enable dummy console for vt

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On 02/19/2018 02:35 PM, Farhan Ali wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/15/2018 07:02 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/15/2018 12:57 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> On 15.02.2018 12:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Christian Borntraeger
>>>> <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> To enable the virtual terminal layer with virtio-gpu, we need to
>>>>> provide the dummy console. This console is hidden behind CONFIG_IOMEM
>>>>> via the graphics support. Instead of fully enabling the graphic
>>>>> drivers lets just provide a Kconfig option for the dummy console.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> New version: instead of moving around the graphic and console stuff,
>>>>> let's just keep an s390 specific variant of CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE
>>>>>   arch/s390/Kconfig | 5 +++++
>>>>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
>>>>> index cbe1d978693a..a69690f616f3 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
>>>>> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
>>>>> @@ -952,6 +952,11 @@ config S390_HYPFS_FS
>>>>>
>>>>>   source "arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig"
>>>>>
>>>>> +config DUMMY_CONSOLE
>>>>> +       bool
>>>>> +       depends on VT
>>>>> +       default y
>>>>> +
>>>>>   config S390_GUEST
>>>>>          def_bool y
>>>>>          prompt "s390 support for virtio devices"
>>>>
>>>> Really?
>>>>
>>>> You already have your own copy of HAS_IOMEM, which makes it hard for
>>>> people to track which one applies where.
>>>
>>> I think I agree with Geert - let's better fix this in a proper way
>>> instead of doing hacks like this. I guess there will be other
>>> architectures in the future that might want to use the dummy console
>>> without CONFIG_IOMEM, so fixing this in drivers/video/ instead sounds
>>> better to me.
>>
>> The question is, what is the proper fix?
>>
> 
> How about we only fence off sub menu items such as DRM or GPU or Fbdev, which actually uses io memory, in drivers/video/Kconfig? Similar to what Thomas suggested for moving the CONFIG_IOMEM dependency for fbdevs?

Can you spin a patch?

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