linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] Documentation: common clk API

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Message-ID: <20120321091037.GQ3852@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:10:37 +0100
From:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
To:	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>
Cc:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
	linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...com>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...aro.org>, patches@...aro.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Richard Zhao <richard.zhao@...aro.org>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] Documentation: common clk API

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 01:44:01AM -0600, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> Hello Saravana,
> 
> Certainly a Kconfig help text change seems trivial enough.  But even the 
> resistance to CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL has been quite surprising to me, given 
> that every single defconfig in arch/arm/defconfig sets it:
> 
> $ find arch/arm/configs -type f  | wc -l
> 122
> $ fgrep -r CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y arch/arm/configs | wc -l
> 122
> $
> 
> (that includes iMX, by the way...)
> 
> Certainly, neither Kconfig change is going to prevent us on OMAP from 
> figuring out what else is needed to convert our platform to the common 
> clock code.  And given the level of enthusiasm on the lists, I don't think 
> it's going to prevent many of the other ARM platforms from experimenting 
> with the conversion, either.
> 
> So it would be interesting to know more about why you (or anyone else) 
> perceive that the Kconfig changes would be harmful.

Mainly because COMMON_CLK is an invisible option which has to be
selected by architectures. So with the Kconfig change we either have to:

config ARCH_MXC
	depends on EXPERIMENTAL

or:

config ARCH_MXC
	select EXPERIMENTAL
	select COMMON_CLK

Neither of both seems very appealing to me.

You can add a warning to the Kconfig help text if you like, I
have no problem with that. As you said it will prevent noone
from using it anyway.

Sascha


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