On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:09:33PM +0800, Anson Huang wrote: > Nowdays, there are more and more requirements of building SoC specific drivers > as modules, such as Android GKI (generic kernel image), this patch set > supports > building i.MX ARMv8 SoCs clock drivers as modules, > > The CLK_IMXxxx is introduced for i.MX ARMv7 platforms in order to make the > build > options aligned, the reason why i.MX ARMv7 platforms clock driver do NOT > support > module build and COMPILE_TEST is because, some drivers like i.MX GPT timer > driver > depends on clock driver to be ready before it, GPT driver uses > TIMER_OF_DECLARE(), > while i.MX6/7 clock drivers use CLK_OF_DECLARE(), and GPT driver is critical > for > i.MX6/7 platforms kernel boot up, so GPT driver needs to be changed to support > loadable clock driver first, then the i.MX6/7 clock drivers can support > loadable > module, this will be done later. > > Changes since V5: > - make i.MX ARMv7 platforms clock driver to bool and NOT support > COMPILT_TEST, > since they depends on ARCH_MXC or SOC config, which makes the > COMPILT_TEST > NOT make enough sense, so just skip the COMPILT_TEST support for i.MX > ARMv7 > platform clock drivers, leave them same as original implementation. > - add a patch to fix build warning reported by kernel robot test on > i.MX6SL > clock driver. > > Anson Huang (6): > clk: composite: Export clk_hw_register_composite() > clk: imx: Support building i.MX common clock driver as module > clk: imx: Add clock configuration for ARMv7 platforms > clk: imx8m: Support module build > clk: imx8qxp: Support building i.MX8QXP clock driver as module > clk: imx6sl: Fix build warning reported by kernel test robot
I'm picking up the series and throwing it into linux-next for testing. Shawn
