Re: [PATCH v3] drm/display: Drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Hi Doug,

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:06:04 -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 4:46 AM Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> wrote:
> > Since commit 0166dc11be91 ("of: make CONFIG_OF user selectable"), it
> > is possible to test-build any driver which depends on OF on any
> > architecture by explicitly selecting OF. Therefore depending on
> > COMPILE_TEST as an alternative is no longer needed.
> >
> > To avoid reintroducing the randconfig bug originally fixed by commit
> > 876271118aa4 ("drm/display: Fix build error without CONFIG_OF"),
> > DRM_MSM which selects DRM_DISPLAY_DP_HELPER must explicitly depend
> > on OF. This is consistent with what all other DRM drivers are doing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> > Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
> > ---
> > For regular builds, this is a no-op, as OF is always enabled on
> > ARCH_QCOM and SOC_IMX5. So this change only affects test builds. As
> > explained before, allowing test builds only when OF is enabled
> > improves the quality of these test builds, as the result is then
> > closer to how the code is built on its intended targets.
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > * Rebase on top of kernel v6.11.
> > Changes in v2:
> > * Let DRM_MSM depend on OF so that random test builds won't break.
> >
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/display/Kconfig |    2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig     |    1 +
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > --- linux-6.11.orig/drivers/gpu/drm/display/Kconfig
> > +++ linux-6.11/drivers/gpu/drm/display/Kconfig
> > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
> >  config DRM_DISPLAY_DP_AUX_BUS
> >         tristate
> >         depends on DRM
> > -       depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
> > +       depends on OF
> >
> >  config DRM_DISPLAY_HELPER
> >         tristate
> > --- linux-6.11.orig/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig
> > +++ linux-6.11/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig
> > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ config DRM_MSM
> >         depends on ARCH_QCOM || SOC_IMX5 || COMPILE_TEST
> >         depends on COMMON_CLK
> >         depends on IOMMU_SUPPORT
> > +       depends on OF  
> 
> Perhaps nobody landed this because you're missing the msm maintainers
> as specified by `./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f
> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig` ? I've added them here. It seems like
> we'd at least need an Ack by those guys since this modified the
> msm/Kconfig...

You are right. The fix originally only touched
drivers/gpu/drm/display/Kconfig and I forgot to update the maintainers
list for v2 when drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Kconfig had to be modified as
well. Thank you for noticing and getting the right people involved,
this clearly made a difference :-)

> FWIW I haven't spent massive time studying this, but what you have
> here looks reasonable. I'm happy at least with this from a DP AUX bus
> perspective:
> 
> Acked-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> 
> Presumably landing this via drm-misc makes the most sense after MSM
> guys give it an Ack.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support