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Message-ID: <20210802164907.GA9832@hoboy.vegasvil.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 09:49:07 -0700
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>,
Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>,
Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@...el.com>,
intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ethernet/intel: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK
dependencies
On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This is a recurring problem in many drivers, and we have discussed
> it several times befores, without reaching a consensus. I'm providing
> a link to the previous email thread for reference, which discusses
> some related problems, though I can't find what reasons there were
> against the approach with the extra Kconfig dependency.
Quoting myself in the thread from 12 Nov 2020:
This whole "implies" thing turned out to be a colossal PITA.
I regret the fact that it got merged. It wasn't my idea.
This whole thing came about because Nicolas Pitre wanted to make PHC
core support into a module and also to be able to remove dynamic posix
clock support for tinification. It has proved to be a never ending
source of confusion.
Let's restore the core functionality and remove "implies" for good.
Thanks,
Richard
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