On 15/05/2020 00:40, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 8:52 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:From: Clay McClure <clay@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ 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. -- Best regards, grygorii
