Re: [PATCH 3/3 RFC] Revert "net: stmmac: fix build failure due to missing COMMON_CLK dependency"

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:59 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This reverts commit bde4975310eb1982bd0bbff673989052d92fd481.
> >
> > All legacy clock implementations now implement clk_set_rate() (Some
> > implementations may be dummies, though).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Marked "RFC", as this depends on "m68k: coldfire: Normalize clk API" and
> > "MIPS: AR7: Normalize clk API".
>
> This seems reasonable. It's possible that it will cause regressions because the
> COMMON_CLK dependency hides another dependency on something else
> that not everything implements, but we should fix that properly if that happens.

Compile-testing was enabled 2 years ago, in commit 2e280c188f06b190
("stmmac: make platform drivers depend on their associated SoC"), but the
dependency on COMMON_CLK was added only recently.
That's what triggered me: the drivers were suddenly disabled in m68k
allmodconfig,
while they built fine for years before.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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