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Re: [PATCH 7/8] fbdev: rework backlight dependencies

From: Sam Ravnborg <hidden>
Date: 2020-04-17 17:04:50
Also in: dri-devel, linux-renesas-soc

Hi Arnd.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 05:55:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Rather than having CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT select CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE,
make any driver that needs it have a dependency on the class device
being available, to prevent circular dependencies.

This is the same way that the backlight is already treated for the DRM
subsystem.
I am not happy with the direction of this patch.
It is not easy to understand that one has to enable backlight to
be allowed to select a display or an fbdev driver.


How about somthing like this:

config BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
	tristate
	# Will enable backlight module
	# Has no dependencies

config	BACKLIGHT
	bool "Backlight drivers"
	# Will make the backlight drivers visible - a visibility option
	# only

if BACKLIGHT

config BACKLIGHT_ATMEL_LCDC
	...
config BACKLIGHT_EP93XX

endif


All drivers outside video/backlight/ can then select
BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE to get the backlight core
module.
Or in other words BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE is used as a sort
of library symbol that gices us access to backlight functionality.

I tried something like this some time ago - but it did not work out for me.
But maybe I just missed something obviously in the maze of Kconfig.

Loking at your patch it is obviously that the approach I suggest above
would require all relevant drivers to explicit add a
select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE.

But that is not a bad thing IMO.


	Sam

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig        |  1 +
 drivers/macintosh/Kconfig         |  1 +
 drivers/staging/fbtft/Kconfig     |  1 +
 drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/Kconfig |  2 +-
 drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig       | 14 +++++++++++---
 5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig b/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
index 48efa7a047f3..f5751b5b0e88 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ config IMG_ASCII_LCD
 config HT16K33
 	tristate "Holtek Ht16K33 LED controller with keyscan"
 	depends on FB && OF && I2C && INPUT
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select FB_SYS_FOPS
 	select FB_SYS_FILLRECT
 	select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig b/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
index cbd46c1c5bf7..a1c6677c7043 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ config PMAC_MEDIABAY
 config PMAC_BACKLIGHT
 	bool "Backlight control for LCD screens"
 	depends on PPC_PMAC && ADB_PMU && FB = y && (BROKEN || !PPC64)
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select FB_BACKLIGHT
 	help
 	  Say Y here to enable Macintosh specific extensions of the generic
diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/fbtft/Kconfig
index dad1ddcd7b0c..c4f2f01cd798 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/Kconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ menuconfig FB_TFT
 	tristate "Support for small TFT LCD display modules"
 	depends on FB && SPI
 	depends on GPIOLIB || COMPILE_TEST
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select FB_SYS_FILLRECT
 	select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
 	select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
diff --git a/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/Kconfig
index d1a0dea09ef0..a9f36538d7ab 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/Kconfig
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ config FB_OLPC_DCON
 	depends on OLPC && FB
 	depends on I2C
 	depends on GPIO_CS5535 && ACPI
-	select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	help
 	  In order to support very low power operation, the XO laptop uses a
 	  secondary Display CONtroller, or DCON.  This secondary controller
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
index bcf7834dbdbf..47e1b65276f4 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ config FB_MACMODES
 config FB_BACKLIGHT
 	tristate
 	depends on FB
-	select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 
 config FB_MODE_HELPERS
 	bool "Enable Video Mode Handling Helpers"
@@ -275,12 +275,12 @@ config FB_ARMCLCD
 	tristate "ARM PrimeCell PL110 support"
 	depends on ARM || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST
 	depends on FB && ARM_AMBA && HAS_IOMEM
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE || !OF
 	select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
 	select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
 	select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
 	select FB_MODE_HELPERS if OF
 	select VIDEOMODE_HELPERS if OF
-	select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE if OF
 	help
 	  This framebuffer device driver is for the ARM PrimeCell PL110
 	  Colour LCD controller.  ARM PrimeCells provide the building
@@ -861,6 +861,7 @@ config FB_ATMEL
 	tristate "AT91 LCD Controller support"
 	depends on FB && OF && HAVE_CLK && HAS_IOMEM
 	depends on HAVE_FB_ATMEL || COMPILE_TEST
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select FB_BACKLIGHT
 	select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
 	select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
@@ -914,6 +915,7 @@ config FB_NVIDIA_DEBUG
 config FB_NVIDIA_BACKLIGHT
 	bool "Support for backlight control"
 	depends on FB_NVIDIA
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y || BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICEû_NVIDIA
 	default y
 	help
 	  Say Y here if you want to control the backlight of your display.
@@ -961,6 +963,7 @@ config FB_RIVA_DEBUG
 config FB_RIVA_BACKLIGHT
 	bool "Support for backlight control"
 	depends on FB_RIVA
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y || BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICEû_RIVA
 	default y
 	help
 	  Say Y here if you want to control the backlight of your display.
@@ -1232,6 +1235,7 @@ config FB_RADEON_I2C
 config FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT
 	bool "Support for backlight control"
 	depends on FB_RADEON
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y || BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICEû_RADEON
 	default y
 	help
 	  Say Y here if you want to control the backlight of your display.
@@ -1263,6 +1267,7 @@ config FB_ATY128
 config FB_ATY128_BACKLIGHT
 	bool "Support for backlight control"
 	depends on FB_ATY128
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y || BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICEû_ATY128
 	default y
 	help
 	  Say Y here if you want to control the backlight of your display.
@@ -1312,6 +1317,7 @@ config FB_ATY_GX
 
 config FB_ATY_BACKLIGHT
 	bool "Support for backlight control"
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y || BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICEû_ATY
 	depends on FB_ATY
 	default y
 	help
@@ -1855,6 +1861,7 @@ config FB_SH_MOBILE_LCDC
 	tristate "SuperH Mobile LCDC framebuffer support"
 	depends on FB && HAVE_CLK && HAS_IOMEM
 	depends on SUPERH || ARCH_RENESAS || COMPILE_TEST
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select FB_SYS_FILLRECT
 	select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
 	select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
@@ -2183,7 +2190,7 @@ config FB_PRE_INIT_FB
 config FB_MX3
 	tristate "MX3 Framebuffer support"
 	depends on FB && MX3_IPU
-	select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
 	select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
 	select FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT
@@ -2250,6 +2257,7 @@ config FB_SSD1307
 	depends on FB && I2C
 	depends on OF
 	depends on GPIOLIB || COMPILE_TEST
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select FB_SYS_FOPS
 	select FB_SYS_FILLRECT
 	select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
-- 
2.26.0

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