From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932420Ab2GBSJd (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:09:33 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36026 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932261Ab2GBSJc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:09:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4FF1E37D.7050103@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:07:57 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: Arnd Bergmann , Alessandro Rubini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com, alan@linux.intel.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, x86@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 5/6] x86: add CONFIG_ARM_AMBA, selected by STA2X11 References: <4FECB95D.7010200@zytor.com> <20120701104401.GA4352@mail.gnudd.com> <2b797c83-6a3c-4051-841a-a4cfa9d1cae1@email.android.com> <201207021658.27755.arnd@arndb.de> <20120702180518.GA25995@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120702180518.GA25995@sirena.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/02/2012 11:05 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 04:58:27PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> Also, in many cases it's possible to say specifically what some code depends >> on. E.g. if a driver uses clk_get/clk_put, it should depend on CLKDEV_LOOKUP, >> not on !X86. > > Or we could get the stubs merged, or x86 could enable the clock API... > If there is a dependency there it should be registered, regardless if x86 enables the clock API. Last I saw I saw a patch to that effect, asked what the benefit was, and got no answer. -hpa