Quoting Shawn Guo (2020-07-29 08:26:35) > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:48:31PM +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 V6: > > - improve patch #6's subject and move it to be first patch of this > > series. > > > > Anson Huang (6): > > clk: imx6sl: Use BIT(x) to avoid shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 > > bits > > 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 > > Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn...@kernel.org> > > Stephen, > > I had sent v5.9 material off my hand to you, so please pick this up > directly if it looks good to you. Thanks! >
Ok. At this point it's pretty late so I think it will have to wait to after the merge window unless there's an rc8.
