Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi-ng: replace lib-y with obj-y

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Maxime Ripard (2018-04-19 06:42:21)
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 04:27:25PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Masahiro Yamada (2018-04-18 04:52:31)
> > > We had commit 06e226c7fb23 ("clk: sunxi-ng: Move all clock types to a
> > > library") and commit 799c43415442 ("kbuild: thin archives make default
> > > for all archs") in the same development cycle, from different trees.
> > > 
> > > With migration to the thin archive, the entire drivers/clk/sunxi-ng/lib.a
> > > is linked to the vmlinux.  This does not break build, but we do not get
> > > any size saving.
> > > 
> > > However, we do not need to go back to the individual Kconfig options.
> > > The default configuration pulls in all (or most) of the CCU parts anyway.
> > > Also, once we enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, we can simply
> > > list all files with obj-y, and the linker will drop all unused functions
> > > by itself.
> > > 
> > > After the long discussion [1], people there agreed to fix this, but
> > > nobody sent a patch after all.  I am doing it now.
> > > 
> > > I lifted up CONFIG_SUNXI_CCU to drivers/clk/Makefile because everything
> > > in drivers/clk/sunxi-ng/ depends on SUNXI_CCU.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9796521/
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Thanks for remembering to take care of this. I forgot about it all.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Or I can pick this up directly. Let me know.
> 
> We'll probably have our usual round of patches that might generate
> some conflicts on the Makefile. I've picked it up with your A-b, and
> will send you a PR with it, as usual.
> 

Perfect. Thanks!