From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752748AbbBWUtd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:49:33 -0500 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:44358 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751861AbbBWUtc (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:49:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:49:24 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck To: Oleksij Rempel Cc: Daniel Lezcano , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] clockevents: asm9260: Fix compilation error with sparc/sparc64 allyesconfig Message-ID: <20150223204924.GA5669@roeck-us.net> References: <20150223175716.GA22430@roeck-us.net> <1424718051-18946-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> <20150223191023.GA25441@roeck-us.net> <54EB8D15.3040208@rempel-privat.de> <20150223203417.GB32536@roeck-us.net> <54EB91BB.9020800@rempel-privat.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54EB91BB.9020800@rempel-privat.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Authenticated_sender: guenter@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-CTCH-PVer: 0000001 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.54EB925B.0251,ss=1,re=0.001,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-Score: 0.001 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: C_4847, X-CTCH-SenderID: linux@roeck-us.net X-CTCH-SenderID-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalMessages: 3 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSpam: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSuspected: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalConfirmed: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalBulk: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalVirus: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalRecipients: 0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: mailgid no entry from get_relayhosts_entry X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:46:51PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote: > Am 23.02.2015 um 21:34 schrieb Guenter Roeck: > > 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 > >>> > >>> Acked-by: Guenter Roeck > >>> > >> > >> 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 ? > > At the moment of pushing patches to arch/arm, maintainers preferred to > have minimalistic Kconfig. > > > Either case, we'll need _some_ fix upstream, whatever is acceptable for the > > maintainer. > > What is with initial white list patch? > I don't know. All I know is that the upstream kernel still has the problem, and that it affects both sparc64-allmodconfig and sparc-allmodconfig. Guenter