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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:18:58 +0100
From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
Cc: linux-sunxi <linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com>,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
zhuzhenhua@...winnertech.com, kevin.z.m.zh@...il.com,
sunny@...winnertech.com, shuge@...winnertech.com,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] i2c: mv64xxx: Add reset
deassert call
> > Since RESET_CONTROLLER is not required for those platforms, it really
> > should be optional - and I think the real fix is for the reset controller
> > support to provide stub functions.
>
> Philipp Zabel suggested that adding a _optional variant that provides stubs
> and doesn't depend on RESET_CONTROLLER is probably better. This keeps the
> compile time checks for drivers requiring it.
>
> See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/10/220
>
> I ended up dropping my patch though.
Thanks for the pointer. Well, looks like I need to revert the offending
i2c patches then until this issue is fixed? We can't have
RESET_CONTROLLER (circular dependency) and we can't skip it (build
failures).
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