[PATCH] fbdev: statically link the framebuffer notification functions

The backlight and lcd subsystems can be notified by the framebuffer layer
of blanking events.  However, these subsystems, as a whole, can function
independently from the framebuffer layer.  But in order to enable to the
lcd and backlight subsystems, the framebuffer has to be compiled also,
effectively sucking in a huge amount of unneeded code.

To prevent dependency problems, separate out the framebuffer notification
mechanism from the framebuffer layer and permanently link it to the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig b/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
index 022f9d3473f5..02f15297a021 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ menuconfig BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT
 
 config BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
         tristate "Lowlevel Backlight controls"
-        depends on BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT && FB
+        depends on BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT
         default m
         help
           This framework adds support for low-level control of the LCD
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ config BACKLIGHT_DEVICE
 
 config LCD_CLASS_DEVICE
         tristate "Lowlevel LCD controls"
-        depends on BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT && FB
+        depends on BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT
         default m
         help
           This framework adds support for low-level control of LCD.