Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: sil_sii8620: depend on INPUT instead of selecting it.

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Hi Laurent,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:17:35AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hello Dmity,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 02:03:42PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:45:56AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 06:13:11AM -0800, Ronald Tschalär wrote:
> > >> commit d6abe6df706c66d803e6dd4fe98c1b6b7f125a56 (drm/bridge:
> > >> sil_sii8620: do not have a dependency of RC_CORE) added a dependency on
> > >> INPUT. However, this causes problems with other drivers, in particular
> > >> an input driver that depends on MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI (to be added in a
> > >> future commit):
> > >> 
> > >>   drivers/clk/Kconfig:9:error: recursive dependency detected!
> > >>   drivers/clk/Kconfig:9:        symbol COMMON_CLK is selected by MFD_INTEL_LPSS
> > >>   drivers/mfd/Kconfig:566:      symbol MFD_INTEL_LPSS is selected by MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI
> > >>   drivers/mfd/Kconfig:580:      symbol MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI is implied by KEYBOARD_APPLESPI
> > >>   drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:73:    symbol KEYBOARD_APPLESPI depends on INPUT
> > >>   drivers/input/Kconfig:8:      symbol INPUT is selected by DRM_SIL_SII8620
> > >>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig:83:    symbol DRM_SIL_SII8620 depends on DRM_BRIDGE
> > >>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig:1:     symbol DRM_BRIDGE is selected by DRM_PL111
> > >>   drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig:1:      symbol DRM_PL111 depends on COMMON_CLK
> > >> 
> > >> According to the docs, select should only be used for non-visible
> > >> symbols. Furthermore almost all other references to INPUT throughout the
> > >> kernel config are depends, not selects. Hence this change.
> > 
> > I think this is not as cut and dry. We should be able to select needed
> > subsystems (such as INPUT, USB, etc) even if they are user visible.
> 
> Semantically, maybe, but given the current state of Kconfig this results
> in a recursive dependencies nightmare. It's a no-go.
> 
> > User, when enabling a piece of hardware, does not need to know ultimate
> > details of all subsystems the driver might need ti function.
> > 
> > It looks like one of the drivers implies MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI, maybe
> > treating imply the same as select when detecting circular dependency is
> > wrong as we are allowed to deselect implied dependencies?
> > 
> > >> 
> > >> CC: Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> CC: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Ronald Tschalär <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > I think this needs to be merged through the input tree as a prerequisite
> > > for the applespi.c driver (keyboard + touchpad driver for 2015+ MacBook,
> > > MacBook Air and MacBook Pro which uses SPI instead of USB) to avoid
> > > breaking the build.  Adding Dmitry.
> > 
> > I have no idea what applespi.c is (it is definitely not in my tree), so
> > I think it should be merged through the same tree that the original
> > commit was introduced through.
> > 
> > >> ---
> > >>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig | 2 +-
> > >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >> 
> > >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig
> > >> index 2fee47b0d50b..eabedc83f25c 100644
> > >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig
> > >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig
> > >> @@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ config DRM_PARADE_PS8622
> > >>  config DRM_SIL_SII8620
> > >>  	tristate "Silicon Image SII8620 HDMI/MHL bridge"
> > >>  	depends on OF
> > >> +	depends on INPUT
> > >>  	select DRM_KMS_HELPER
> > >>  	imply EXTCON
> > >> -	select INPUT
> > >>  	select RC_CORE
> > 
> > Keeping "select RC_CORE" is wrong though, as the driver appears to be
> > working find without RC. Maybe it should be stubbed out?
> 
> It should definitely not be select'ed as it's a user-visible symbol. My
> preference would be to simply revert d6abe6df706c. If we want (and can)
> work without RC core then it should be stubbed out.
> 
> Commit d6abe6df706c states
> 
>     And some boards not using remote controller device don't really
>     need to know that RC_CORE config should be enabled to use sil_sii8620
>     driver only for HDMI.
> 
> The same reasoning applies to INPUT, if we agree that depending on
> RC_CORE is confusing for users, then depending on INPUT is confusing as
> well. There's not reason to apply different standards to INPUT and
> RC_CORE, depending on one and selecting the other doesn't make much
> sense.

OK, so revert + patch to stub out RC calls? That works for me (and I
still say it should go through the same tree that introduced
d6abe6df706c).

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry