Re: [PATCH 0/3] clk: microchip: core: allow driver to be compiled with COMPILE_TEST

From: Conor Dooley

Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 12:36:32 EST


On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:27:27PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:10:42PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 06:51:03PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> > > Here's a small series that lets us enable COMPILE_TEST for the pic32 clk
> > > driver so that this driver can be compiled on all architectures in the
> > > future to help avoid breakage.
> >
> > Why do you care about this platform? Originally I thought you cared cos
> > you were getting involved in clock subsystem stuff, but I see you doing
> > stuff with it in pinctrl etc. Is that just general cleanup work, or do
> > you actually have an interest in the platform?
>
> My sole interest is to clean up the clk driver, which spilled into
> larger work to clean the include header to allow this driver to be
> compiled on other architectures. If I was going to do this for the
> clk driver, it wasn't that much work to do the other pic32 driver
> cleanups while I was there.
>
> Honestly, I hope to done with all of these pic32 drivers after what I
> posted this week has been merged.

Not to pooh pooh your efforts, but I asking as I am wondering whether
the whole platform should be deleted. I'm gonna ask internally about it,
but none of the authors are around anymore and seeing
| git log --grep "pic32" --author="@microchip.com" --pretty="%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s" -n 2 --date=short
| 5e972ac119c87 Conor Dooley 2026-02-24 clk: microchip: rename clk-core to clk-pic32
| a726f1d2dd4fe Purna Chandra Mandal 2016-06-02 MIPS: pic32mzda: Fix linker error for pic32_get_pbclk()
is bad omen.

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