Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752399AbcKAQeM (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:34:12 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:55388 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752198AbcKAQeK (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2016 12:34:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [char-misc:char-misc-testing] warning To: Robin van der Gracht , Tobias Jakobi References: <20161101150702.00a6379f@erd979> <5818B5AF.5000806@math.uni-bielefeld.de> <20161101170220.4c80968c@erd979> Cc: Sean Paul , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Vetter From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <9b957180-340e-51a6-bbee-01353de79925@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:34:04 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161101170220.4c80968c@erd979> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 30 On 11/01/16 09:02, Robin van der Gracht wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 16:33:03 +0100 > Tobias Jakobi wrote: > >> Hello Robin, >> >> I'm afraid I can't help you with that. The series was done as a request >> by Daniel Vetter, see here for reference: >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg113011.html > So.. I should contact Daniel Vetter about this..? > >> I don't have any nouveau platform here. > > Me neither, the warning is shown when invoking Kconfig. So when I use > the config file supplied on my previous email, and start a build or a > menuconfig on my (x86_64) system its showing. The kconfig warning is in mainline now and it has nothing to do with the new HT16K33 driver. How is nouveau supposed to provide backlight support? It selects FB_BACKLIGHT but FB_BACKLIGHT depends on FB, which is not enabled in the supplied .config file. -- ~Randy