On 10/27/21 15:25, Arnd Bergmann wrote: [snip]
> That's not going to help in this case, the way the helper functions work is > that > you select them as needed, and you avoid the other dependencies. This part > works fine. > > We could probably get rid of this symbol by just making it an unconditional > part of drm.ko, as almost every driver ends up using it anyway. > > Arguably, this would make the end result worse, as you'd again get drm.ko > itself to link against the old framebuffer code. > > What I'm not sure about is whether drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb.ko could > be split up into smaller parts so DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION could > only depend on a set of common code without the bits that are needed > for the classic fbdev drivers. > I attempted to do something like that but the changes were nacked: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fbdev/list/?series=538227 > Arnd > Best regards, -- Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
