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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] drivers: gpio: add virtio-gpio guest driver
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On 2020/12/7 下午9:53, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:12:50AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On 2020/12/6 上午3:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 08:59:55AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
>>>> On 04.12.20 04:35, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
>>>>>> @@ -1615,6 +1615,15 @@ config GPIO_MOCKUP
>>>>>>         tools/testing/selftests/gpio/gpio-mockup.sh. Reference the
>>>>>> usage in
>>>>>>         it.
>>>>>>   +config GPIO_VIRTIO
>>>>>> +    tristate "VirtIO GPIO support"
>>>>>> +    depends on VIRTIO
>>>>> Let's use select, since there's no prompt for VIRTIO and it doesn't have
>>>>> any dependencies.
>>>> whoops, it's not that simple:
>>>>
>>>> make: Entering directory '/home/nekrad/src/apu2-dev/pkg/kernel.apu2.git'
>>>> make[1]: Entering directory
>>>> '/home/nekrad/src/dk/DistroKit/platform-x86_64/build-target/linux-5.8.9-build'
>>>> GEN Makefile
>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:74:error: recursive dependency detected!
>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:74: symbol DRM_KMS_HELPER is selected by
>>>> DRM_VIRTIO_GPU
>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/Kconfig:2: symbol DRM_VIRTIO_GPU depends on VIRTIO
>>>> drivers/virtio/Kconfig:2: symbol VIRTIO is selected by GPIO_VIRTIO
>>>> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:1618: symbol GPIO_VIRTIO depends on GPIOLIB
>>>> drivers/gpio/Kconfig:14: symbol GPIOLIB is selected by I2C_MUX_LTC4306
>>>> drivers/i2c/muxes/Kconfig:47: symbol I2C_MUX_LTC4306 depends on I2C
>>>> drivers/i2c/Kconfig:8: symbol I2C is selected by FB_DDC
>>>> drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:63: symbol FB_DDC depends on FB
>>>> drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:12: symbol FB is selected by DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER
>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:80: symbol DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER depends on
>>>> DRM_KMS_HELPER
>>>>
>>>> Seems that we can only depend on or select some symbol - we run into
>>>> huge trouble if thats mixed. Just changed DRM_VIRTIO_GPU to just select
>>>> VIRIO instead of depending on it, and now it works.
>>>>
>>>> I've posted another patch for fixing drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/Kconfig
>>>> to use 'select' instead of 'depends on'.
>>> It seems a bit of a mess, at this point I'm not entirely sure when
>>> should drivers select VIRTIO and when depend on it.
>>>
>>> The text near it says:
>>>
>>> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>>> config VIRTIO
>>> tristate
>>> help
>>> This option is selected by any driver which implements the virtio
>>> bus, such as CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI, CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO, CONFIG_RPMSG
>>> or CONFIG_S390_GUEST.
>>>
>>> Which seems clear enough and would indicate drivers for devices *behind*
>>> the bus should not select VIRTIO and thus presumably should "depend on" it.
>>> This is violated in virtio console and virtio fs drivers.
>>>
>>> For console it says:
>>>
>>> commit 9f30eb29c514589e16f2999ea070598583d1f6ec
>>> Author: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
>>> Date: Mon Aug 31 18:58:50 2020 +0200
>>>
>>> char: virtio: Select VIRTIO from VIRTIO_CONSOLE.
>>> Make it possible to have virtio console built-in when
>>> other virtio drivers are modular.
>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
>>> Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>
>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200831165850.26163-1-msuchanek@suse.de
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>>>
>>> which seems kind of bogus - why do we care about allowing a builtin
>>> virtio console driver if the pci virtio bus driver is a module?
>>> There won't be any devices on the bus to attach to ...
>>
>> For testing like switching bus from pci to MMIO?
>
> Not sure I understand ... can you give an example?


E.g testing

modprobe -r virtio_mmio
modprobe virtio_pci

?


>
>>> And for virtio fs it was like this from the beginning.
>>>
>>> I am inclined to fix console and virtio fs to depend on VIRTIO:
>>> select is harder to use correctly ...
>>>
>>> Jason?
>>
>> I think it works, but we need a prompt for VIRTIO otherwise there's no way
>> to enable it.
>>
>> Thanks
> That's even messier. No one needs VIRTIO core by itself - it's only used
> by transports and drivers.


So we endup with two solutions (without a prompt):

1) using select, user may end up with driver without transport
2) using depends, user need to enable at least one transport

2) looks a little bit better I admit.

Thanks


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