Re: [PATCH] drm/sti: Depend on OF rather than selecting it

[Philippe CORNU <philippe.cornu@st.com>]

On 04/05/2018 01:05 PM, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
> 2018-04-03 7:34 GMT+02:00 Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>:
>> Commit cc6b741c6f63 ("drm: sti: remove useless fields from vtg
>> structure") reworked some code inside of this driver and made it select
>> CONFIG_OF. This results in the entire OF layer being enabled when
>> building an allmodconfig on ia64. OF on ia64 is completely unsupported
>> so this isn't a great state of affairs.
>>
>> The 0day robot noticed a link-time failure on ia64 caused by
>> using of_node_to_nid() in an otherwise unrelated driver. The
>> generic fallback for of_node_to_nid() only exists when:
>>
>>          defined(CONFIG_OF) && defined(CONFIG_NUMA) == false
>>
>> Since CONFIG_NUMA is usually selected for IA64 we get the link failure.
>> Fix this by making the driver depend on OF rather than selecting it,
>> odds are that was the original intent.
>>
>> Link: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2018-March/045172.html
>> Fixes: cc6b741c6f63 ("drm: sti: remove useless fields from vtg structure")
>> Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Vincent Abriou <vincent.abriou@st.com>
>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
>> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
>> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>

Applied on drm-misc-next

Many thanks for your patch,
Philippe :-)

> 
>> ---
>> Cc`ed to stable since the ia64 guys might want it backported. I'm not
>> bothered if it just goes into mainline.
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/sti/Kconfig | 3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/Kconfig
>> index cca4b3c9aeb5..1963cc1b1cc5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sti/Kconfig
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>   config DRM_STI
>>          tristate "DRM Support for STMicroelectronics SoC stiH4xx Series"
>> -       depends on DRM && (ARCH_STI || ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM)
>> +       depends on OF && DRM && (ARCH_STI || ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM)
>>          select RESET_CONTROLLER
>>          select DRM_KMS_HELPER
>>          select DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER
>> @@ -8,6 +8,5 @@ config DRM_STI
>>          select DRM_PANEL
>>          select FW_LOADER
>>          select SND_SOC_HDMI_CODEC if SND_SOC
>> -       select OF
>>          help
>>            Choose this option to enable DRM on STM stiH4xx chipset
>> --
>> 2.9.5
>>
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