# \[RFC PATCH 4/4\] drm: Make fbdev emulation depend on FB\_CORE instead of FB

- From: Javier Martinez Canillas \<javierm@redhat.com\>
- Date: 2021-08-27 10:06:09 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2021/08/1490458
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dri-devel/2021/08/1490458/t.md

```text
Now that the fbdev core has been split in FB_CORE and FB, make DRM fbdev
emulation layer to just depend on the former.

This allows to disable the CONFIG_FB option if is not needed, which will
avoid the need to explicitly disable all the legacy fbdev drivers.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
---

 drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
index 8fc40317f2b..7806adb02f1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ config DRM_DEBUG_DP_MST_TOPOLOGY_REFS
 config DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION
 	bool "Enable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver"
 	depends on DRM
-	depends on FB
+	depends on FB_CORE
 	select DRM_KMS_HELPER
 	select FB_CFB_FILLRECT
 	select FB_CFB_COPYAREA
-- 
2.31.1

```
