This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/omap: displays: panel-dpi: add backlight dependency to the 4.14-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: drm-omap-displays-panel-dpi-add-backlight-dependency.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Feb 1 13:45:42 CET 2018 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 14:06:41 +0200 Subject: drm/omap: displays: panel-dpi: add backlight dependency From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 499ec0ed5eb2f6a7fcaab2dd66ffc5993484bda9 ] The new backlight code causes a link failure when backlight support itself is disabled: drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-dpi.o: In function `panel_dpi_probe_of': panel-dpi.c:(.text+0x35c): undefined reference to `of_find_backlight_by_node' This adds a Kconfig dependency like we have for the other OMAP display targets. Fixes: 39135a305a0f ("drm/omap: displays: panel-dpi: Support for handling backlight devices") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/Kconfig @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ config DRM_OMAP_CONNECTOR_ANALOG_TV config DRM_OMAP_PANEL_DPI tristate "Generic DPI panel" + depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE help Driver for generic DPI panels. Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/drm-omap-displays-panel-dpi-add-backlight-dependency.patch queue-4.14/gpio-fix-kernel-stack-leak-to-userspace.patch