Re: [PATCH V4 3/5] clk: imx: Support building i.MX common clock driver as module
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jul 02 2020 - 03:43:26 EST
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:12 AM Anson Huang <anson.huang@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The question is whether the #ifdef check in the header to test for MODULE
> > (only calling it if this particular soc has a built-in clk driver, which is sufficient)
> > or for IS_MODULE(CONFIG_MXC_CLK) (call it if _any_ clk driver is built-in and
> > the function exists, which leaves extra code in the driver but is a more
> > conventional check).
> >
>
> So you prefer to add an empty inline function for imx_register_uart_clocks() with check
> of MODULE build?
Yes, I want the empty inline stub, but either symbol check would work
> Even with this, we still need to add MODULE build check to whole block
> of this earlycon uart clock handler in imx/clk.c.
Correct.
Arnd