[PATCH] xen kconfig: clarify INPUT_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND select
Stefano Stabellini
stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com
Mon Feb 15 08:51:08 PST 2016
CC'ing a few others.
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The Xen framebuffer driver selects the xen keyboard driver, so the latter
> will be built-in if XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=y. However, when CONFIG_INPUT
> is a loadable module, this configuration cannot work. On mainline kernels,
> the symbol will be enabled but not used, while in combination with
> a patch I have to detect such useless configurations, we get the
> expected link failure:
>
> drivers/input/built-in.o: In function `xenkbd_remove':
> xen-kbdfront.c:(.text+0x2f0): undefined reference to `input_unregister_device'
> xen-kbdfront.c:(.text+0x30e): undefined reference to `input_unregister_device'
>
> This changes the dependencies of XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND so it cannot be
> built-in if CONFIG_INPUT=m && CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y, as that would result
> in the broken select.
>
> As usual, we would be much better off without the 'select', but removing
> it now would likely break existing user configurations that depend on
> it, so this adds another hack on top to get it working.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Fixes: 36c1132e34bd ("xen kconfig: fix select INPUT_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND")
> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
> index 8ea45a5cd806..fd3d6fd290a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
> @@ -2241,6 +2241,7 @@ config FB_VIRTUAL
> config XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND
> tristate "Xen virtual frame buffer support"
> depends on FB && XEN
> + depends on INPUT || !INPUT_MISC
> select FB_SYS_FILLRECT
> select FB_SYS_COPYAREA
> select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
This looks very hackish. Couldn't we just do the following?
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
index 8ea45a5..3c15f6d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig
@@ -2246,7 +2246,7 @@ config XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND
select FB_SYS_IMAGEBLIT
select FB_SYS_FOPS
select FB_DEFERRED_IO
- select INPUT_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND if INPUT_MISC
+ select INPUT_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND if (INPUT && INPUT_MISC)
select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
default y
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