Re: [PATCH 0/2] drm: Make it compilable without CONFIG_HDMI and CONFIG_I2C

From: Thomas Huth
Date: Fri Apr 13 2018 - 10:46:30 EST


On 13.04.2018 16:32, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> By enabling the DRM code for virtio-gpu on S390, you currently also get
>> all the code that is enabled by CONFIG_HDMI and CONFIG_I2C automatically.
>> This is quite ugly, since on S390, there is no HDMI and no I2C. Thus it
>> would be great if the DRM code could also be compiled without CONFIG_HDMI
>> and CONFIG_I2C. These two patches now refactor the DRM code a little bit
>> so that we can compile it also without CONFIG_HDMI and CONFIG_I2C.
>>
>> Thomas Huth (2):
>> drivers/gpu/drm: Move CONFIG_HDMI-dependent code to a separate file
>> drivers/gpu/drm: Make the DRM code compilable without CONFIG_I2C
>
> What's the benefit? Why does I2C/HDMI hurt you?

Why should I be forced to compile-in subsystems that do not make any
sense on this architecture? It's just completely weird to see CONFIG_I2C
enabled on s390x.

Thomas