On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 06:27:04PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi all, > > This RFC patch series reworks the Kconfig and Makefile logic for the > Renesas clock and SoC drivers. It was sparked by a discussion with Olof > about the Renesas clock driver dependencies. > > The goals are to: > - Allow precise control over and automatic selection of which > (sub)drivers are used for which SoC (which may change in the > future), > - Allow adding support for new SoCs easily, > - Allow compile-testing of all (sub)drivers, > - Keep driver selection logic in the subsystem-specific Kconfig > independent from the architecture-specific Kconfig (i.e. no "select" > from arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms), to avoid dependencies. > > The series can't be applied as-is, because compile-testing all drivers > depends on independent fixes, some in other subsystems. > > More details are provided in the individual patch descriptions. > > For testing, this patch series, plus several fixes to allow more > compile-testing, are available in the > topic/clk-soc-renesas-Kconfig-rework branch of my renesas-drivers git > repository at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git. > > This has been tested on R-Car Gen2 and Gen3, and compile-tested for > various other configurations. > > Thanks for your comments! Hi Geert, thanks for working on this. I am very pleased to see something that is more robust with regards to adding new platforms without causing build breakage - I have been burnt by this several times. Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
