[PATCH] arm64: kernel: need extern variable 'screen_info' for related driver using.

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:13:08AM +0100, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 05/21/2013 05:03 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 08:51:39AM +0100, Chen Gang wrote:
> >> For me, I still recommend add 'ARM64' in the long list of architectures
> >> for 'VGA_CONSOLE', I have 3 reasons, please check:
> >>
> >> a. current implementation only changes one area which only related with
> >> arm64 and 'VGA_CONSOLE', but if use 'CONFIG_HAVE_VGA_CONSOLE', that will
> >> touch many multiple platforms dependency, at least we need discuss about
> >> it with multiple platforms guys for it, firstly.
> > 
> > That's a weak argument. You might as well propose the cleanup and see what
> > people say.
> 
> Hmm.. I think at least, we need discuss it with the 'final applier'
> firstly (and now, I even do not know who is the 'final applier').

Well, you can post the patch to linux-arch, cc'ing the arch maintainers
whose Kconfig files you touch. If there are no comments, it will most
likely be picked by Andrew Morton and sent to Linus (make sure you cc
Andrew as well).

-- 
Catalin