Re: [PATCH 0/3] clk: microchip: core: allow driver to be compiled with COMPILE_TEST

[Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:36:25PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:27:27PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:10:42PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 06:51:03PM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:
> > > > Here's a small series that lets us enable COMPILE_TEST for the pic32 clk
> > > > driver so that this driver can be compiled on all architectures in the
> > > > future to help avoid breakage.
> > > 
> > > Why do you care about this platform? Originally I thought you cared cos
> > > you were getting involved in clock subsystem stuff, but I see you doing
> > > stuff with it in pinctrl etc. Is that just general cleanup work, or do
> > > you actually have an interest in the platform?
> > 
> > My sole interest is to clean up the clk driver, which spilled into
> > larger work to clean the include header to allow this driver to be
> > compiled on other architectures. If I was going to do this for the
> > clk driver, it wasn't that much work to do the other pic32 driver
> > cleanups while I was there.
> > 
> > Honestly, I hope to done with all of these pic32 drivers after what I
> > posted this week has been merged.
> 
> Not to pooh pooh your efforts, but I asking as I am wondering whether
> the whole platform should be deleted. I'm gonna ask internally about it,
> but none of the authors are around anymore and seeing
> | git log --grep "pic32" --author="@microchip.com" --pretty="%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s" -n 2 --date=short
> | 5e972ac119c87   Conor Dooley    2026-02-24      clk: microchip: rename clk-core to clk-pic32
> | a726f1d2dd4fe   Purna Chandra Mandal    2016-06-02      MIPS: pic32mzda: Fix linker error for pic32_get_pbclk()
> is bad omen.

Yea, that's not a good sign. No objections from me.

Brian