[alsa-devel] [PATCH] powerpc: select PPC_CLOCK unconditionally for FSL_SOC

[Kumar Gala]

On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:38 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:

> Freescale PowerPC SoCs share a number of IP blocks with Freescale
> ARM/IMX SoCs, FlexCAN, SSI, FEC, eSDHC, USB, etc.  There are some
> effort consolidating those drivers to make them work for both
> architectures.
> 
> One outstanding difference between two architectures is ARM/IMX will
> turn off module clocks during platform initialization for power saving
> and expects drivers manage clocks using clk API, while PowerPC
> mostly does not do that, and thus does not always build in clk API.
> 
> Listing all those driver Kconfig options in "select PPC_CLOCK if" seems
> not scalable for long term maintenance, and could easily introduce
> Kconfig recursive dependency.  This patch chooses to select PPC_CLOCK
> unconditionally for FSL_SOC to always build clk API for PowerPC in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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- k