Re: [PULL] clockevents: a couple of fixes for tip/timers/urgent

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Aug 07 2015 - 17:25:52 EST


On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Maxime Coquelin (1):
>> clockevents/drivers/timer-stm32: Improve dependencies of timer-stm32
>>
>> drivers/clocksource/Kconfig | 4 ++--
>
> Hm, so why is this an urgent fix, i.e. a regression fix? It appears to widen build
> coverage:
>
> config CLKSRC_STM32
> - bool "Clocksource for STM32 SoCs" if !ARCH_STM32
> - depends on OF && ARM && (ARCH_STM32 || COMPILE_TEST)
> + bool "Clocksource for STM32 SoCs" if COMPILE_TEST
> + depends on OF && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
>
> that can at most introduce build regressions - not fix anything.
>
> If there's any other purpose of this change it's not mentioned in the changelog.
>
> Also, I think the change is broken to begin with:
>
> + bool "Clocksource for STM32 SoCs" if COMPILE_TEST
>
> this will turn off the driver even in its target platform!

FWIW, ARCH_STM32 in arch/arm/Kconfig selects CLKSRC_STM32

> The right way to increase testing this way is via:
>
> depends on ... || COMPILE_TEST

Indeed.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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