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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 6/6] drm: Add helper for simple display pipeline
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Den 11.05.2016 21:10, skrev Paul Bolle:
> On wo, 2016-05-11 at 19:09 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:09:22PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
>>> +config DRM_SIMPLE_KMS_HELPER
>>> + tristate
>>> + depends on DRM
>>> + select DRM_KMS_HELPER
>>> + help
>>> + Helpers for very simple KMS drivers.
>> Personally not sold on piles of Kconfig knobs for tiny amounts of code
>> like this one. I'd just drop it. For a more elaborate argument see
>> http://sietch-tagr.blogspot.ch/2016/04/display-panels-are-not-special.html
>>
>> Note that almost all the other helpers do not have a Kconfig option, the
>> only real exception is the fbdev helpers. And those have a good reason:
>> They'd drag in all of fbdev, and that is actually a pile of code.
> Moreover, this adds a kconfig entry without a prompt. The entry also
> doesn't have a "default". And I didn't spot a patch adding a select for
> this symbol. So, based on just this series, I think that
> DRM_SIMPLE_KMS_HELPER can't actually be set.
>
> I didn't test this, so perhaps I missed something. Did I, Noralf?

It would have been selected in the tinydrm follow-up patchset, but
I'll do as Daniel suggests and add it to drm_kms_helper-y.

Noralf.

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