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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clockevents: asm9260: Fix compilation error with sparc/sparc64 allyesconfig
Am 23.02.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
> On 02/23/2015 09:46 PM, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
>> Am 23.02.2015 um 21:34 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:27:01PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
>>>> Am 23.02.2015 um 20:10 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
>>>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 08:00:51PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>>>>> The Kconfig options for the asm9260 timer is wrong as it can be
>>>>>> selected by
>>>>>> another platform with allyes config and thus leading to a
>>>>>> compilation failure
>>>>>> as some non arch related code is pulled by the compilation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fix this by having the platform Kconfig to select the timer as it
>>>>>> is done for
>>>>>> the others drivers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> the thing is, this SoC or this company has no own IP cores. All of them
>>>> are from other companies and providers, including this timer. This is
>>>> why all modules for this SoC are selectable.
>>>>
>>> Maybe the modules should be selected by the architectures using the
>>> IP cores ?
>>
>> At the moment of pushing patches to arch/arm, maintainers preferred to
>> have minimalistic Kconfig.
>>
>>> Either case, we'll need _some_ fix upstream, whatever is acceptable
>>> for the
>>> maintainer.
>>
>> What is with initial white list patch?
>
> The Kconfig policy for the timers is to let the arch to select the timer
> they need and not enable them from the clocksource/Kconfig file. That is
> the general policy even there are a couple of exceptions.
>
> So if you are ok with the patch I sent I will merge it as a fix.
>
>

I'm ok with it. Thank you, for your work.

--
Regards,
Oleksij

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