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From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To:     Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: logo: LOGO should depend on FB_CORE i.s.o. FB
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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:39:06 +0200
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Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi
>> >
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> >> 
>> >> Yes. I meant to move drivers/video/logo/ to drivers/fbdev/core/logo and to
>> >> source its Kconfig from drivers/fbdev/core/Kconfig, since it now depends
>> >> on FB_CORE.
>> >
>> > No, please rather leave it where it is. There's no code dependencies to 
>> > the fbdev core; it merely depends on the Kconfig token.
>> >
>> 
>> Sure, fine by me. But I disagree that there's merely a Kconfig dependency.
>> The include/linux/linux_logo.h header declares both fb_find_logo() and
>> fb_append_extra_logo().
>> 
>> The fb_find_logo() function is defined in drivers/video/logo.c while the
>> fb_append_extra_logo() is in drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c, even though
>> only arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c uses fb_append_extra_logo().
>> 
>> So there's a relationship already between logo and fbdev/core, that's why
>> I wondered if would make sense to also move drivers/video/logo.c to have
>> both functions in there.
> Or as I also suggested on irc - to pull out all the logo stuff from
> fbmem and put it in video/logo/
> With a bit of refactoring to make it obvious this is logo stuff and
> maybe avoid some of the ifdeffery in the code of the users.
>

Agreed. That option may be better.

> 	Sam
>

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat