Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: rework backlight dependencies

On 10/27/21 6:27 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@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@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@infraded.org

Thanks.