Re: [PATCH] clk: mvebu: ARMADA_AP_CPU_CLK needs to select ARMADA_AP_CP_HELPER

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 22:44:24 EST


On 01-07-20, 13:11, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> When building arm32 allmodconfig:
>
> ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: ap_cp_unique_name
> >>> referenced by ap-cpu-clk.c
> >>> clk/mvebu/ap-cpu-clk.o:(ap_cpu_clock_probe) in archive drivers/built-in.a
>
> ap_cp_unique_name is only compiled into the kernel image when
> CONFIG_ARMADA_AP_CP_HELPER is selected (as it is not user selectable).
> However, CONFIG_ARMADA_AP_CPU_CLK does not select it.
>
> This has been a problem since the driver was added to the kernel but it
> was not built before commit c318ea261749 ("cpufreq: ap806: fix cpufreq
> driver needs ap cpu clk") so it was never noticed.
>
> Fixes: f756e362d938 ("clk: mvebu: add CPU clock driver for Armada 7K/8K")
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I do not know who should actually take this patch since the problematic
> patch is on Viresh's cpufreq/arm/linux-next

That patch just enabled the config option and I have picked it up for
5.9.

> but the problem originated
> from a patch in the clk tree in 5.4. I assume all that would be needed
> is a clk maintainer's ack? Please let me know if I did something wrong.

This patch should go through clk tree and get pushed for 5.8 if
possible (which makes sense as well).

--
viresh