linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: Select PTP_1588

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Message-ID: <20200429072959.GA10194@arctic-shiba-lx>
Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:29:59 -0700
From:   Clay McClure <clay@...mons.net>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
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        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Select PTP_1588_CLOCK in PTP-specific drivers

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 06:07:45PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:21 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:14 AM Clay McClure <clay@...mons.net> wrote:
> > > Change these drivers back [2] to `select PTP_1588_CLOCK`. Note that this
> > > requires also selecting POSIX_TIMERS, a transitive dependency of
> > > PTP_1588_CLOCK.
> >
> > If these drivers have a hard dependency on PTP_1588_CLOCK, IMHO they
> > should depend on PTP_1588_CLOCK, not select PTP_1588_CLOCK.
> 
> Agreed.

Thanks for reviewing the patch. I'll post v2 using `depends on` shortly.

> Note that for drivers that only optionally use the PTP_1588_CLOCK
> support, we probably want 'depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK ||
> !PTP_1588_CLOCK' (or the syntax replacing it eventually), to avoid the
> case where a built-in driver fails to use a modular ptp implementation.

I see some drivers are starting to do just that, e.g.:

commit 96c34151d157 ("net/mlx5: Kconfig: convert imply usage to weak dependency")

I can post a patch this weekend converting the rest of the drivers.

-- 
Clay