netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3 RFC] Revert "net: stmmac: fix build failure due to missing COMMON

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1mhVJYuQGZM+ypQ1mKbB=+5gA6L=_D7-jjPmShLarwUQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:59:12 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        Corentin Labbe <clabbe@...libre.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        "open list:RALINK MIPS ARCHITECTURE" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 RFC] Revert "net: stmmac: fix build failure due to
 missing COMMON_CLK dependency"

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> This reverts commit bde4975310eb1982bd0bbff673989052d92fd481.
>
> All legacy clock implementations now implement clk_set_rate() (Some
> implementations may be dummies, though).
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> ---
> Marked "RFC", as this depends on "m68k: coldfire: Normalize clk API" and
> "MIPS: AR7: Normalize clk API".

This seems reasonable. It's possible that it will cause regressions because the
COMMON_CLK dependency hides another dependency on something else
that not everything implements, but we should fix that properly if that happens.

       Arnd