netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] m68k: coldfire: Normalize clk API

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUyD8d2yoe6v8TEinEH3hhS7Znv99pPxDCkr_uEFS0Fzg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:31:59 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     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>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] m68k: coldfire: Normalize clk API

Hi Greg,

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:27 AM Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On 11/06/18 18:44, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Coldfire still provides its own variant of the clk API rather than using
> > the generic COMMON_CLK API.  This generally works, but it causes some
> > link errors with drivers using the clk_round_rate(), clk_set_rate(),
> > clk_set_parent(), or clk_get_parent() functions when a platform lacks
> > those interfaces.
> >
> > This adds empty stub implementations for each of them, and I don't even
> > try to do something useful here but instead just print a WARN() message
> > to make it obvious what is going on if they ever end up being called.
> >
> > The drivers that call these won't be used on these platforms (otherwise
> > we'd get a link error today), so the added code is harmless bloat and
> > will warn about accidental use.
> >
> > Based on commit bd7fefe1f06ca6cc ("ARM: w90x900: normalize clk API").
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
>
> I am fine with this for ColdFire, so
>
> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>

Thanks!

> Are you going to take this/these via your m68k git tree?

I''m fine delagating this to you.
Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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