Re: [PATCH] backlight: ktd2801: fix LED dependency

Daniel Thompson
2024-02-12T12:44:34Z

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 12:18:12PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> The new backlight driver unconditionally selects LEDS_EXPRESSWIRE, which
> is in a different subsystem that may be disabled here:
>
> WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for LEDS_EXPRESSWIRE
> Depends on [n]: NEW_LEDS [=n] && GPIOLIB [=y]
> Selected by [y]:
> - BACKLIGHT_KTD2801 [=y] && HAS_IOMEM [=y] && BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE [=y]
>
> Change the select to depends, to ensure the indirect dependency is
> met as well even when LED support is disabled.
>
> Fixes: 66c76c1cd984 ("backlight: Add Kinetic KTD2801 backlight support")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig b/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
> index 230bca07b09d..f83f9ef037fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ config BACKLIGHT_KTD253
>
> config BACKLIGHT_KTD2801
> tristate "Backlight Driver for Kinetic KTD2801"
> - select LEDS_EXPRESSWIRE
> + depends on LEDS_EXPRESSWIRE

As far as I can tell this resolves the warning by making it impossible
to enable BACKLIGHT_KTD2801 unless a largely unrelated driver
(LEDS_KTD2692) is also enabled!

A better way to resolve this problem might be to eliminate the NEW_LEDS
dependency entirely:
~~~
diff --git a/drivers/leds/Kconfig b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
index 64bb2de237e95..a08816cde78ae 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
@@ -186,10 +186,6 @@ config LEDS_EL15203000
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called leds-el15203000.

-config LEDS_EXPRESSWIRE
- bool
- depends on GPIOLIB
-
config LEDS_TURRIS_OMNIA
tristate "LED support for CZ.NIC's Turris Omnia"
depends on LEDS_CLASS_MULTICOLOR
@@ -936,3 +932,10 @@ comment "Simple LED drivers"
source "drivers/leds/simple/Kconfig"

endif # NEW_LEDS
+
+# This is library code that is useful for LEDs but can be enable/disabled
+# independently of NEW_LEDS. In fact it must be independent so it can be
+# selected from other sub-systems.
+config LEDS_EXPRESSWIRE
+ bool
+ depends on GPIOLIB
~~~

Alternatively we could add a "depends on NEW_LEDS" alongside the
existing select or just make LEDS_EXPRESSWIRE user selectable.

It also looks like we should put back the GPIOLIB dependency to both
KTD2801 and KTD2692... and I'll take a mea-culpa for providing bad
advice during the review cycles!

Daniel.