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Re: [PATCH] ARC: add negative dependency for VGA_CONSOLE

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On 25/08/15 10:47, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On Monday 17 August 2015 09:51 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Yuriy Kolerov
>> <yuriy.kolerov@synopsys.com> wrote:
>>> Architectures which support VGA console must define screen_info
>>> structurture from "uapi/linux/screen_info.h". Otherwise undefined
>>> symbol error occurs. Usually it's defined in "setup.c" for each
>>> architecture.
>>>
>>> If an architecture does not support VGA console (ARC's case)
>>> there are 2 ways: define a dummy instance of screen_info or add
>>> a negative dependency for VGA_CONSOLE in to prevent selecting
>>> this option.
>>>
>>> I've implemented the second way. However the best solution is to
>>> add HAVE_VGA_CONSOLE option for targets which support VGA
>>> console. Then turn off VGA_CONSOLE by default and add dependency
>>> to HAVE_VGA_CONSOLE. But right now it's better to just add a
>>> negative dependency for ARC and then consider how to collaborate
>>> about this issue with maintainers of other architectures.
>> +1
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yuriy Kolerov <yuriy.kolerov@synopsys.com>
>> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> 
> Hi Tomi,
> 
> Is anything else needed for this to be merged.

This is already in linux-next, merged by Andrew Morton.

 Tomi

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Re: [PATCH] ARC: add negative dependency for VGA_CONSOLE Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> - 2015-08-25 09:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ARC: add negative dependency for VGA_CONSOLE Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> - 2015-08-26 13:40 +0200

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