On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 06:55:49PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:31:51AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Maxime Ripard
> >> <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:06:52PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> >> When the base sun4i DRM driver is built-in but the back-end is
> >> >> a loadable module, we run into a link error:
> >> >>
> >> >> drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.o: In function `sun4i_drv_probe':
> >> >> sun4i_drv.c:(.text+0x60c): undefined reference to `sun4i_frontend_of_table'
> >> >>
> >> >> The dependency is a bit tricky, the best workaround I have come up
> >> >> with is to use a Makefile hack to to interpret both
> >> >> CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND=m and CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND=y
> >> >> as a directive to build the front-end the same way as the main module.
> >> >>
> >> >> Fixes: dd0421f47505 ("drm/sun4i: Add a driver for the display frontend")
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >> >> ---
> >> >>  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile | 5 ++++-
> >> >>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> >>
> >> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile
> >> >> index 582607c0c488..db14e023256b 100644
> >> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile
> >> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile
> >> >> @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I)             += sun4i-tcon.o
> >> >>  obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I)              += sun4i_tv.o
> >> >>  obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I)              += sun6i_drc.o
> >> >>
> >> >> -obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND)      += sun4i-backend.o sun4i-frontend.o
> >> >> +obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND)      += sun4i-backend.o
> >> >> +ifdef CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND
> >> >> +obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I)              += sun4i-frontend.o
> >> >> +endif
> >> >
> >> > Can we just create a Kconfig symbol, selected by DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND,
> >> > and we would export the symbol?
> >>
> >> Yes, I think that would work just as well. Something like
> >>
> >> config DRM_SUN4I_FRONTEND
> >>       tristate
> >>       default DRM_SUN4I if CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND != n
> >>
> >> should do the trick.
> >
> > I had more something like this in mind:
> > https://pastebin.com/raw/XydvzAtz
> 
> This doesn't solve the issue at hand, which is sun4i-drv (CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I)
> requires something in sun4i-backend (CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND), and if
> sun4i-drv is built-in, then anything it uses must also be built-in.

Ah, right. Then I guess Arnd's suggestion is the best we can
have. Arnd, can you resubmit that patch?

Thanks!
Maxime

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