Re: [PATCH v3 07/13] drm: Make drivers depends on DRM_DW_HDMI

Re: [PATCH v3 07/13] drm: Make drivers depends on DRM_DW_HDMI

[Mark Brown]

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On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 04:43:46PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:57:02AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> 
> > DRM_DW_HDMI has a number of dependencies that might not be enabled.
> > However, drivers were used to selecting it while not enforcing the
> > DRM_DW_HDMI dependencies.
> > 
> > This could result in Kconfig warnings (and further build breakages) such
> > as:
> > 
> >   Kconfig warnings: (for reference only)
> >      WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for DRM_DW_HDMI
> >      Depends on [n]: HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM [=m] && DRM_BRIDGE [=y] && DRM_DISPLAY_HELPER [=n]
> >      Selected by [m]:
> >      - DRM_SUN8I_DW_HDMI [=m] && HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM_SUN4I [=m]

> This has landed in -next and appears to be causing breakage for several
> platforms using these devices.  For example I'm seeing the HDMI fail to
> probe on sun50i-a64-pin64-plus with arm64 defconfig, the DT kselftest
> result isn't terribly informative but it can be seen here:

It has now been *three* weeks that this breakage has sat unaddressed in
-next, this has been making my CI for -next unusable.  Given that
getting the defconfig bits of this merged appears somwhow unreasonably
difficult can we please drop these changes from the DRM tree until some
strategy for getting everything merged is put into place?

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Re: [PATCH v3 07/13] drm: Make drivers depends on DRM_DW_HDMI

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 04:43:46PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:57:02AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> 
>> > DRM_DW_HDMI has a number of dependencies that might not be enabled.
>> > However, drivers were used to selecting it while not enforcing the
>> > DRM_DW_HDMI dependencies.
>> > 
>> > This could result in Kconfig warnings (and further build breakages) such
>> > as:
>> > 
>> >   Kconfig warnings: (for reference only)
>> >      WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for DRM_DW_HDMI
>> >      Depends on [n]: HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM [=m] && DRM_BRIDGE [=y] && DRM_DISPLAY_HELPER [=n]
>> >      Selected by [m]:
>> >      - DRM_SUN8I_DW_HDMI [=m] && HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM_SUN4I [=m]
>
>> This has landed in -next and appears to be causing breakage for several
>> platforms using these devices.  For example I'm seeing the HDMI fail to
>> probe on sun50i-a64-pin64-plus with arm64 defconfig, the DT kselftest
>> result isn't terribly informative but it can be seen here:
>
> It has now been *three* weeks that this breakage has sat unaddressed in
> -next, this has been making my CI for -next unusable.  Given that
> getting the defconfig bits of this merged appears somwhow unreasonably
> difficult can we please drop these changes from the DRM tree until some
> strategy for getting everything merged is put into place?

This is what's being done [1].


BR,
Jani.


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1713780345.git.geert+renesas@glider.be


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Jani Nikula, Intel