Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] ACPI: video: Remove CONFIG_X86 handling from nvidia_wmi_ec_supported()

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2026, Hans de Goede <hansg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 16-Sep-26 09:16, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2026, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Am 15.09.26 um 14:31 schrieb Jani Nikula:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2026, Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> GPU people heads up!!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2 Sep 2026, Armin Wolf wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 01.09.26 um 23:30 schrieb Deucher, Alexander:
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig
>>>>>>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig
>>>>>>>> index 12e4a41bf1f0..50305630f533 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig
>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/Kconfig
>>>>>>>> @@ -30,9 +30,7 @@ config DRM_AMDGPU
>>>>>>>>         # ACPI_VIDEO's dependencies must also be selected.
>>>>>>>>         select INPUT if ACPI
>>>>>>>>         select ACPI_VIDEO if ACPI
>>>>>>>> -     # On x86 ACPI_VIDEO also needs ACPI_WMI
>>>>>>>> -     select X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES if ACPI && X86
>>>>>>> The change below makes sense, but this one looks like it should remain
>>>>>>> unless X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES is handled some other way?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alex
>>>>>> AFAIK the dependency on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES was only necessary because
>>>>>> ACPI-WMI depended on it in the past.
>>>>>> By now ACPI-WMI neither depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES or X86 anymore.
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Could more GPU people besides Alex take a look on this. I'd want to make
>>>>> progress with this series within this cycle but would prefer to have Acks
>>>>> from GPU side.
>>>> I share the same concern with Alex. It seems to me we could now end up
>>>> with x86 configurations without X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES, which handle
>>>> e.g. backlight on a lot of platforms.
>>>>
>>>> I think the safer option might be to go for:
>>>>
>>>> 	depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES || !X86
>>>>
>>>> in all of the cases that select/depend on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES in drm.
>>>>
>>>> The alternative is to find out, and handle the fallout, if any.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BR,
>>>> Jani.
>>>
>>> Alright, should i leave the original "select X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES if ..." statements
>>> as-is or should is change them to "depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES || !X86" everywhere?
>> 
>> There are some places that depends on X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES. I think it's
>> almost always a mistake to have some places select and some places
>> depends on, and select should anyway be used with care. I'd go for
>> depends on.
>
> I'm a bit late to the party here, sorry.
>
> Note that X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES is an option which enables / disables
> a menu and does nothing more.
>
> Enabling it or depending on it by itself does nothing.
>
> The select used to be there since it must be selected to be able
> to select ACPI_WMI (which is no longer the case after this series).
>
> To depends on in XE was probably copy pasted from the existing
> select-s and then changed to a depends and already was a completely
> no-op since depending on ACPI_WMI was enough as that itself
> dependend on ACPI_WMI.
>
> As for X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES being needed for some backlight
> interfaces, depending on it by itself does not result in those
> interfaces being there. That requires enabling the actual drivers
> providing those interfaces.
>
> And I don't think that the GPU drivers should start depending
> on those since that will become very unyielding.
>
> TL;DR: I believe Armin's original patch is fine and this is
> a welcome cleanup / simplification of the DRM drivers Kconfig
> bits.

Your explanation makes sense, thanks.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel