Re: [PATCH 10/11] cpufreq: tegra: select CPU_FREQ_TABLE for ARCH_TEGRA

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Thu Jun 13 2013 - 11:44:08 EST


On 06/12/2013 10:24 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 12 June 2013 21:20, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 06/12/2013 02:15 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>> ARCH_TEGRA selects ARCH_HAS_CPUFREQ, so CPUFREQ will be enabled for all variants
>>> of TEGRA. CPUFreq driver for tegra is enabled if ARCH_TEGRA is selected. Driver
>>> uses APIs from freq_table.c and so we must select CPU_FREQ_TABLE for ARCH_TEGRA.
>>>
>>> This also removes select CPU_FREQ_TABLE from individual tegra variants.
>>
>> I guess the real issue here is that drivers/cpufreq/tegra-cpufreq.c gets
>> built based on ARCH_TEGRA, which doesn't depend on nor select CPU_FREQ
>> itself, so:
>>
>> select CPU_FREQ_TABLE if CPU_FREQ
>>
>> ... isn't guaranteed to fire.
>>
>> The correct solution seems to be:
>>
>> * Add CONFIG_ARM_TEGRA_CPUFREQ to drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm.
>> * Make that Kconfig option selct CPU_FREQ_TABLE.
>> * Make that Kconfig option be def_bool ARCH_TEGRA.
>> * Modify drivers/cpufreq/Makefile to build tegra-cpufreq.c based on that.
>> * Remove all the cpufreq-related stuff from arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig.
>>
>> That way, tegra-cpufreq.c can't be built if !CPU_FREQ, and Tegra's
>> cpufreq works the same way as all the other cpufreq drivers.
>
> Hmmm. check this out (attached too for you to test):

This certainly generates the correct .config when I "make
tegra_defconfig" after applying it, and a build after disabling CPU_FREQ
links OK, so,

Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

(I assume this patch would go through the cpufreq tree?)

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