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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/12] clocksource: sti: Provide 'use timer as sched clock' capability
On 05/08/2015 01:47 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 11:29 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>> Ah, you mean from menuconfig. I almost forgot what that was. ;)
>>
>> I can add a menu option, no problem.
>
> It's not just menuconfig:
> $ grep -e CONFIG_ARCH_STI -e CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC .config
> CONFIG_ARCH_STI=y
> CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC=y
> CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC_TIMER_SCHED_CLOCK=y
> $ vim .config
> $ grep -e CONFIG_ARCH_STI -e CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC .config
> CONFIG_ARCH_STI=y
> # CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC is not set
> # CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC_TIMER_SCHED_CLOCK is not set
> $ make ARCH=arm silentoldconfig
> scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
> #
> # configuration written to .config
> #
> $ grep -e CONFIG_ARCH_STI -e CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC .config
> CONFIG_ARCH_STI=y
> CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC=y
> CONFIG_CLKSRC_ST_LPC_TIMER_SCHED_CLOCK=y
>
> So I think that, if you want to be able to set
> CLKSRC_ST_LPC_TIMER_SCHED_CLOCK to 'n' even though CLKSRC_ST_LPC is 'y',
> you need to add a prompt. Or have you found a way around this?

The general policy is to have non-prompted options in the clocksource's
Kconfig and let the platform's config to select the right components.


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