Re: Kconfig dangling references (BZ 216748)

Randy Dunlap
2025-12-08T18:40:04Z

On 12/8/25 10:13 AM, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> On Sun 07 Dec 25, 18:04, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216748
>>
>> The bugzilla entry includes a Perl script and a shell script.
>> This is the edited result of running them (I removed some entries that were noise).
>
> [...]
>
>> DRM_KMS_DMA_HELPER ---
>> drivers/gpu/drm/adp/Kconfig:9: select DRM_KMS_DMA_HELPER
>> drivers/gpu/drm/logicvc/Kconfig:7: select DRM_KMS_DMA_HELPER
>
> For these two, the symbol was removed in commit
> 09717af7d13d63df141ae6e71686289989d17efd but these two drivers either were
> missed by the batch rename or were introduced a bit later.
>
> Since the symbol selected DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER (which is still needed by the
> drivers), it should be replaced with DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER.
>
> Are you expecting to craft a patch for fixing this or should I do it myself?

Hi Paul,
Please take care of it yourself.

Thanks.
--
~Randy