Re: [PATCH] s390/console: enable dummy console for vt

[Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 02/19/2018 08:37 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
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> On 02/19/2018 02:35 PM, Farhan Ali wrote:
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>> On 02/15/2018 07:02 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
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>>> On 02/15/2018 12:57 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> On 15.02.2018 12:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Christian Borntraeger
>>>>> <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>>> To enable the virtual terminal layer with virtio-gpu, we need to
>>>>>> provide the dummy console. This console is hidden behind CONFIG_IOMEM
>>>>>> via the graphics support. Instead of fully enabling the graphic
>>>>>> drivers lets just provide a Kconfig option for the dummy console.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> New version: instead of moving around the graphic and console stuff,
>>>>>> let's just keep an s390 specific variant of CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE
>>>>>>    arch/s390/Kconfig | 5 +++++
>>>>>>    1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
>>>>>> index cbe1d978693a..a69690f616f3 100644
>>>>>> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
>>>>>> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
>>>>>> @@ -952,6 +952,11 @@ config S390_HYPFS_FS
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>>>>>>    source "arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> +config DUMMY_CONSOLE
>>>>>> +       bool
>>>>>> +       depends on VT
>>>>>> +       default y
>>>>>> +
>>>>>>    config S390_GUEST
>>>>>>           def_bool y
>>>>>>           prompt "s390 support for virtio devices"
>>>>>
>>>>> Really?
>>>>>
>>>>> You already have your own copy of HAS_IOMEM, which makes it hard for
>>>>> people to track which one applies where.
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>>>> I think I agree with Geert - let's better fix this in a proper way
>>>> instead of doing hacks like this. I guess there will be other
>>>> architectures in the future that might want to use the dummy console
>>>> without CONFIG_IOMEM, so fixing this in drivers/video/ instead sounds
>>>> better to me.
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>>> The question is, what is the proper fix?
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>> How about we only fence off sub menu items such as DRM or GPU or Fbdev, which actually uses io memory, in drivers/video/Kconfig? Similar to what Thomas suggested for moving the CONFIG_IOMEM dependency for fbdevs?
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> Can you spin a patch?
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Yes, I will post it as V3.