Re: [PATCH v2] drm/panel: Select DRM_DP_HELPER for DRM_PANEL_EDP

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Feb 22 2022 - 04:31:46 EST


On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 10:39 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 12:31 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As reported in [1], DRM_PANEL_EDP depends on DRM_DP_HELPER. Select
> > the option to fix the build failure. The error message is shown
> > below.
> >
> > arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-edp.o: in function
> > `panel_edp_probe': panel-edp.c:(.text+0xb74): undefined reference to
> > `drm_panel_dp_aux_backlight'
> > make[1]: *** [/builds/linux/Makefile:1222: vmlinux] Error 1
> >
> > The issue has been reported before, when DisplayPort helpers were
> > hidden behind the option CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER. [2]
> >
> > v2:
> > * fix and expand commit description (Arnd)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> This fixes the build errors I'm seeing, so
> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Is this planned to be queued? This is still failing in drm-next.
Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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