Re: [PATCH -next] drm/solomon: Make DRM_SSD130X depends on MMU

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Apr 11 2022 - 09:49:58 EST


Hi Javier,

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 12:28 PM Javier Martinez Canillas
<javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/12/22 07:34, YueHaibing wrote:
> > WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER
> > Depends on [n]: HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM [=m] && MMU [=n]
> > Selected by [m]:
> > - DRM_SSD130X [=m] && HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM [=m]
> >
> > DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER depends on MMU, DRM_SSD130X should also depends on MMU.
> >
> > Fixes: a61732e80867 ("drm: Add driver for Solomon SSD130x OLED displays")
> > Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Indeed. All the DRM drivers that select DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER depend on MMU.

That's very unfortunate. Is there no way around this?

Else fbdev can never be deprecated in favor of DRM.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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