Re: [PATCH 10/11] clocksource: flexcard: Add basic timestamp counter support

From: John Stultz
Date: Thu Mar 26 2015 - 12:35:07 EST


On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Holger Dengler <dengler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/26/2015 10:41 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>
>> config CLKSRC_FLEXCARD
>> bool
>> select CLKSRC_MMIO
>
> The Flexcard PMC II, which provides this clocksrc functionality, is a
> PCI card. According to the PMC specs, this card-type is hot-plugable. So
> this clocksrc is not SoC-related, it's also hot-plugable.
> Therefore a module-capable driver seems a good solution for me.
>
>>
>> and then the Kconfig for MFD_FLEXCARD selects CLKSRC_FLEXCARD.
>>
>
> Ok, this could be an option to enable the clocksrc feature by default,
> if MFD_FLEXCARD is selected.

Yea, I think this would be preferred. If the user already selects
something to get device functionality, lets not make them search
around in other menus to find another config option to enable all the
capabilities.

thanks
-john
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