This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "drm: fb_helper: improve CONFIG_FB dependency" to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: revert-drm-fb_helper-improve-config_fb-dependency.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 84705e42a0d08434045955845e0c53ee0acbd7b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:30:10 +0100 Subject: Revert "drm: fb_helper: improve CONFIG_FB dependency" From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This reverts commit 94e18f5a5dd1b5e3b89c665fc5ff780858b1c9f6 which is commit 9d6366e743f37d36ef69347924ead7bcc596076e upstream. It causes some build problems as reported by Jiri. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fdb2bf1-de52-1b9d-4783-c61ce39e8f51@xxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig @@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ config DRM_DEBUG_DP_MST_TOPOLOGY_REFS config DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION bool "Enable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver" - depends on DRM_KMS_HELPER - depends on FB=y || FB=DRM_KMS_HELPER + depends on DRM + depends on FB=y || FB=DRM + select DRM_KMS_HELPER select FB_CFB_FILLRECT select FB_CFB_COPYAREA select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.14/kvm-fix-steal-time-asm-constraints.patch queue-5.14/revert-drm-fb_helper-fix-config_fb-dependency.patch queue-5.14/bootconfig-init-fix-memblock-leak-in-xbc_make_cmdline.patch queue-5.14/loop-use-blk_validate_block_size-to-validate-block-size.patch queue-5.14/fortify-explicitly-disable-clang-support.patch queue-5.14/block-add-a-helper-to-validate-the-block-size.patch queue-5.14/revert-drm-fb_helper-improve-config_fb-dependency.patch