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Re: [PATCH 5/7] clocksource/drivers/pxa_timer: Move the Kconfig rule

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Amit,
>
> On 11/02/2015 08:44 AM, Amit Kucheria wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Daniel Lezcano
>> <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Instead of having the clocksource's Kconfig depending on the arch, let
>>> the
>>> arch to select the timer it needs.
>>
>>
>> Is this the prescribed way to do things nowadays? It leads to more
>> options showing up in 'make menuconfig'. Why do I need to see
>> CLKSRC_PXA if I'm not even compiling for ARCH_PXA (and not interesting
>> in COMPILE_TEST)?
>
>
> That won't happen.
>
> As the 'bool' has no string after, it won't show up in the menuconfig.

Nice, I didn't know that.

> Actually, with the next patch, only COMPILE_TEST will show it up in the
>
> Device Drivers->Clocksource drivers.

Thanks.
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Re: [PATCH 5/7] clocksource/drivers/pxa_timer: Move the Kconfig rule Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@verdurent.com> - 2015-11-02 08:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/7] clocksource/drivers/pxa_timer: Move the Kconfig rule Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2015-11-02 09:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 5/7] clocksource/drivers/pxa_timer: Move the Kconfig rule Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@verdurent.com> - 2015-11-02 11:20 +0100

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