[PATCH] drivers: gpu: drm: virtio: fix dependency of DRM_VIRTIO_GPU on VIRTIO

From: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Date: Fri Dec 04 2020 - 08:15:17 EST


VIRTIO itself has no dependencies and therefore can easily be just
select'ed, instead of depending on it. The current depends on causes
any others trying to select VIRTIO to fail like this:

drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:74:error: recursive dependency detected!
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:74: symbol DRM_KMS_HELPER is selected by DRM_VIRTIO_GPU
drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/Kconfig:2: symbol DRM_VIRTIO_GPU depends on VIRTIO
drivers/virtio/Kconfig:2: symbol VIRTIO is selected by GPIO_VIRTIO
drivers/gpio/Kconfig:1618: symbol GPIO_VIRTIO depends on GPIOLIB
drivers/gpio/Kconfig:14: symbol GPIOLIB is selected by I2C_MUX_LTC4306
drivers/i2c/muxes/Kconfig:47: symbol I2C_MUX_LTC4306 depends on I2C
drivers/i2c/Kconfig:8: symbol I2C is selected by FB_DDC
drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:63: symbol FB_DDC depends on FB
drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:12: symbol FB is selected by DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER
drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:80: symbol DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER depends on DRM_KMS_HELPER

It seems that having both 'depends on' as well as 'select' on the same symbol
sends us into big trouble, and Kconfig can't break up the circular dependency
(note that in the tested configuration, neither I2C, FB or DRM are enabled at
all). Perhaps we could consider this a bug in Kconfig, but the trouble can
easily be circumvented by changing 'depends on' into 'select'.

DRM_VIRTIO_GPU also depends on VIRTIO_MENU, so even after this change, that
option will only show up if the user already enabled virtio in the config.

This change didn't cause any changes in the .config after menuconfig run,
so we should be completely safe here.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/Kconfig | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/Kconfig
index b925b8b1da16..51ec7c3240c9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/Kconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config DRM_VIRTIO_GPU
tristate "Virtio GPU driver"
- depends on DRM && VIRTIO && VIRTIO_MENU && MMU
+ depends on DRM && VIRTIO_MENU && MMU
+ select VIRTIO
select DRM_KMS_HELPER
select DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER
select VIRTIO_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
--
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