linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ptp_clock: future-proofing drivers against PTP subsystem becoming optional

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:18:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nicolas.pitre@...aro.org
Cc:     richardcochran@...il.com, john.stultz@...aro.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, josh@...htriplett.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptp_clock: future-proofing drivers against PTP
 subsystem becoming optional

From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:25:58 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> Drivers must be ready to accept NULL from ptp_clock_register() if the
> PTP clock subsystem is configured out.
> 
> This patch documents that and ensures that all drivers cope well
> with a NULL return.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> Let's have the basics merged now and work out the actual Kconfig issue 
> separately. Richard, if you agree with this patch, I think this could go 
> via the netdev tree.

Applied to net-next, thanks.