Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the net-next tree

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jun 20 2012 - 05:58:33 EST


From: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:59:26 +0200

>> Then the driver should NEVER have been submitted without the
>> required infrastructure in place first.
>
> This particular driver don't use the clk framework at the moment. I put
> that lines about clk to try to be generic as possibile, but I see that I
> made a mistake: I'm sorry.

Why would you try to be generic by using an interface currently
only available on certain platforms?

That is how you make drivers non-portable, and not generic.

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