Re: [PATCH] clk: iproc: Make clocks visible options

From	Florian Fainelli <fainelli@broadcom.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] clk: iproc: Make clocks visible options
Date	2015-10-23 00:00 +0200
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On 22/10/15 13:14, Jon Mason wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:46:46PM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> comments inline.
>>
>> On 15-10-22 12:25 PM, Jon Mason wrote:
>>> Make the clocks visible options that can be selected by anyone.  This
>>> avoids the problems of:
>>>  1) Select is a reverse dependency and is hard for people to understand
>>>     and can sometimes be a pain to track down
>> This doesn't make any sense to me - there are many selects in the
>> system and this is one of them.
> 
> This was specifically requested by Stephen Boyd, and the above are
> his words verbatum
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/21/956

I am soon going to introduce a new clock driver under drivers/clk/bcm/
which is going to need some Kconfig tweaks as well, it would be good if
we reached consensus on this so Stephen can apply this.

Thanks!
-- 
Florian
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[PATCH] clk: iproc: Make clocks visible options Jon Mason <jonmason@broadcom.com> - 2015-10-22 21:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] clk: iproc: Make clocks visible options Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com> - 2015-10-22 21:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] clk: iproc: Make clocks visible options Jon Mason <jonmason@broadcom.com> - 2015-10-22 22:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] clk: iproc: Make clocks visible options Florian Fainelli <fainelli@broadcom.com> - 2015-10-23 00:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] clk: iproc: Make clocks visible options Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com> - 2015-10-23 01:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] clk: iproc: Make clocks visible options Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2015-10-28 01:40 +0100

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