[PATCH 2/3] fbdev: rework backlight dependencies

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Thu Oct 28 06:25:47 AEDT 2021


On 10/27/21 6:27 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> Rather than having CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT select CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE,
> make any driver that needs it have a dependency on the class device
> being available, to prevent circular dependencies.
> 
> This is the same way that the backlight is already treated for the DRM
> subsystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
>   drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig        |  1 +
>   drivers/macintosh/Kconfig         |  1 +
>   drivers/staging/fbtft/Kconfig     |  1 +
>   drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/Kconfig |  2 +-
>   drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig       | 14 +++++++++++---
>   5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infraded.org>

Thanks.

-- 
~Randy


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