Re: [PATCH] lib: remove FBCON dependency for fonts

David Herrmann
2014-03-07T10:47:08Z

Hi

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:14 AM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fonts don't depend on CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE at all. Remove that.
>> Besides, CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT is 'select'ed anyway, so the dependencies
>> aren't checked by most higher-level options.
>
> CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT is indeed selected, but the other options are about
> which fonts to include by default. No dependencies are bypassed by the select.

Indeed, I missed that, sorry.

> Without the "depends on FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE", people who don't
> have FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE set, but have set any of these:
>
> config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
> select FONT_SUPPORT
>
> config VIDEO_VIVI
> select FONT_SUPPORT
> select FONT_8x16
>
> config SOLO6X10
> select FONT_SUPPORT
> select FONT_8x16
>
> config USB_SISUSBVGA
> select FONT_SUPPORT
> ...
> select FONT_8x16
>
> config SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE
> select FONT_SUPPORT
>
> config STI_CONSOLE
> select FONT_SUPPORT
>
> will now get more (unused) fonts in their kernel image.

Why would they get more unused fonts? All those fonts are "default n"
(except for some arch-specific stuff and 8x8 and obviously 8x16). I
don't mind if we drop this, but it makes font-selection impossible if
fbcon is disabled, which is kinda unexpected.

Thanks
David