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Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	federico.vaga@...il.com
Cc:	mkl@...gutronix.de, bhupesh.sharma@...com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, giancarlo.asnaghi@...com,
	wg@...ndegger.com
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the net-next tree

From: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:59:26 +0200

>> Then the driver should NEVER have been submitted without the
>> required infrastructure in place first.
> 
> This particular driver don't use the clk framework at the moment. I put 
> that lines about clk to try to be generic as possibile, but I see that I 
> made a mistake: I'm sorry.

Why would you try to be generic by using an interface currently
only available on certain platforms?

That is how you make drivers non-portable, and not generic.

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