Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: scpi: Add dependency on SCPI clk driver

[Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>]

Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> writes:

> On 17-11-15, 18:14, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> The SCPI clk driver registers the virtual cpufreq device that kicks off
>> initialisation of the SCPI cpufreq driver. Make the dependendency
>> explicit in Kconfig.
>
> That's not a dependency. Any other part of the kernel can add this
> *virtual* cpufreq device to get it going.

Any part can add the virtual cpufreq device but for scpi-cpufreq it is
done by clk-scpi. I can re-word it for clarity.
>
> But, we do have dependency the other way round. clk_get() will fail
> for the cpufreq driver if SCPI-clk driver is missing and perhaps
> that's what you need to mention in the changelog.
>
>> Fixes: 8def31034d03 ("cpufreq: arm_big_little: add SCPI interface driver")
>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
>> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
>> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
>> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm
>> index 1582c1c..dadfdd4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm
>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm
>> @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ config ARM_SA1110_CPUFREQ
>>  
>>  config ARM_SCPI_CPUFREQ
>>          tristate "SCPI based CPUfreq driver"
>> -	depends on ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ && ARM_SCPI_PROTOCOL
>> +	depends on ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ && ARM_SCPI_PROTOCOL && COMMON_CLK_SCPI
>
> This looks fine.

I'll send an updated version to be picked up.

Thanks for taking a look.