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SubjectRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.6 30/62] net: Make PTP-specific drivers depend on PTP_1588_CLOCK
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On 15/05/2020 00:40, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 8:52 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Clay McClure <clay@daemons.net>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit b6d49cab44b567b3e0a5544b3d61e516a7355fad ]
>>
>> Commit d1cbfd771ce8 ("ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional") changed
>> all PTP-capable Ethernet drivers from `select PTP_1588_CLOCK` to `imply
>> PTP_1588_CLOCK`, "in order to break the hard dependency between the PTP
>> clock subsystem and ethernet drivers capable of being clock providers."
>
> I don't think this one should be backported unless 3a9dd3ecb207 ("kconfig:
> make 'imply' obey the direct dependency") is already backported to v5.6
> (which I don't think it should either).
>
Yes. pls, drop it. It's rather optimization, not a fix.
And it might introduce build failures.

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Best regards,
grygorii

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