Re: [PATCH] clockevents: asm9260: Fix compilation error with sparc/sparc64 allyesconfig

Guenter Roeck
2015-02-23T20:34:26Z

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:27:01PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Am 23.02.2015 um 20:10 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 08:00:51PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> >> The Kconfig options for the asm9260 timer is wrong as it can be selected by
> >> another platform with allyes config and thus leading to a compilation failure
> >> as some non arch related code is pulled by the compilation.
> >>
> >> Fix this by having the platform Kconfig to select the timer as it is done for
> >> the others drivers.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> >
> > Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> >
>
> the thing is, this SoC or this company has no own IP cores. All of them
> are from other companies and providers, including this timer. This is
> why all modules for this SoC are selectable.
>
Maybe the modules should be selected by the architectures using the IP cores ?

Either case, we'll need _some_ fix upstream, whatever is acceptable for the
maintainer.

Guenter