Re: [PATCH] Revert "fbdev: vesafb: Allow to be built if COMPILE_TEST is enabled"

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>]

On 6/10/22 11:47, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:54:50AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> This reverts commit fa0e256450f27a7d85f65c63f05e6897954a1d53. The kernel
>> test robot reported that attempting to build the vesafb driver fails on
>> some architectures, because these don't define a `struct screen_info`.
>>
>> This leads to linking errors, for example on parisc with allyesconfig:
>>
>>   hppa-linux-ld: drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.o: in function `vesafb_probe':
>>>> (.text+0x738): undefined reference to `screen_info'
>>>> hppa-linux-ld: (.text+0x73c): undefined reference to `screen_info'
>>    hppa-linux-ld: drivers/firmware/sysfb.o: in function `sysfb_init':
>>>> (.init.text+0x28): undefined reference to `screen_info'
>>>> hppa-linux-ld: (.init.text+0x30): undefined reference to `screen_info'
>>    hppa-linux-ld: (.init.text+0x78): undefined reference to `screen_info'
>>
>> The goal of commit fa0e256450f2 ("fbdev: vesafb: Allow to be built if
>> COMPILE_TEST is enabled") was to have more build coverage for the driver
>> but it wrongly assumed that all architectures would define a screen_info.
>>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

Pushed to drm-misc (drm-misc-next). Thanks!

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat