[PATCH 5/5] hisi: Consolidate the Kconfigs for the CLOCK_STUB and the MAILBOX

Jassi Brar jassisinghbrar at gmail.com
Tue May 8 20:49:13 PDT 2018


On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org> wrote:
> From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>
>
> The current defconfig is inconsistent as it selects the mailbox and
> the clock for the hi6220 and the hi3660 without having their Kconfigs
> making sure the dependencies are correct. It ends up when selecting
> different versions for the kernel (for example when git bisecting)
> those options disappear and they don't get back, leading to unexpected
> behaviors. In our case, the cpufreq driver does no longer work because
> the clock fails to initialize due to the clock stub and the mailbox
> missing.
>
> In order to have the dependencies correctly set when defaulting, let's
> do the same as commit 3a49afb84ca074e ("clk: enable hi655x common clk
> automatically") where we select automatically the driver when the
> parent driver is selected. With sensible defaults in place, we can leave
> other choices for EXPERT.
>
Acked-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh at linaro.org>



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