Hi Arnd,
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:02 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When seeing commit bde4975310eb1982 ("net: stmmac: fix build failure due
> > to missing COMMON_CLK dependency"), I wondered why this dependency is
> > needed, as all implementations of the clock API should implement all
> > required functionality, or provide dummies.
> >
> > It turns out there were still two implementations that lacked the
> > clk_set_rate() function: Coldfire and AR7.
> >
> > This series contains three patches:
> > - The first two patches add dummies for clk_set_rate(),
> > clk_set_rate(), clk_set_parent(), and clk_get_parent() to the
> > Coldfire and AR7, like Arnd has done for other legacy clock
> > implementations a while ago.
> > - The second patch removes the COMMON_CLK dependency from the stmmac
> > network drivers again, as it is no longer needed.
> > Obviously this patch has a hard dependency on the first two patches.
>
> Yes, good idea.
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxx>
Thanks!
> One question: what happens on machines that don't support any CLK
> interface, i.e.
> that don't have any of COMMON_CLK/HAVE_CLK/CLKDEV_LOOKUP?
>
> I guess those are already hopelessly broken for many drivers, right?
Nope, they (e.g. m68k allmodconfig) build fine, as they don't define
CONFIG_HAVE_CLK.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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