Hi Greg, On 18/05/2020 20:35, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
From: Clay McClure <[email protected]>[ Upstream commit b6d49cab44b567b3e0a5544b3d61e516a7355fad ] Commit d1cbfd771ce8 ("ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional") changed all PTP-capable Ethernet drivers from `select PTP_1588_CLOCK` to `imply PTP_1588_CLOCK`, "in order to break the hard dependency between the PTP clock subsystem and ethernet drivers capable of being clock providers." As a result it is possible to build PTP-capable Ethernet drivers without the PTP subsystem by deselecting PTP_1588_CLOCK. Drivers are required to handle the missing dependency gracefully. Some PTP-capable Ethernet drivers (e.g., TI_CPSW) factor their PTP code out into separate drivers (e.g., TI_CPTS_MOD). The above commit also changed these PTP-specific drivers to `imply PTP_1588_CLOCK`, making it possible to build them without the PTP subsystem. But as Grygorii Strashko noted in [1]: On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:16:11PM +0300, Grygorii Strashko wrote:Another question is that CPTS completely nonfunctional in this case and it was never expected that somebody will even try to use/run such configuration (except for random build purposes).In my view, enabling a PTP-specific driver without the PTP subsystem is a configuration error made possible by the above commit. Kconfig should not allow users to create a configuration with missing dependencies that results in "completely nonfunctional" drivers. I audited all network drivers that call ptp_clock_register() but merely `imply PTP_1588_CLOCK` and found five PTP-specific drivers that are likely nonfunctional without PTP_1588_CLOCK: NET_DSA_MV88E6XXX_PTP NET_DSA_SJA1105_PTP MACB_USE_HWSTAMP CAVIUM_PTP TI_CPTS_MOD Note how these symbols all reference PTP or timestamping in their name; this is a clue that they depend on PTP_1588_CLOCK. Change them from `imply PTP_1588_CLOCK` [2] to `depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK`. I'm not using `select PTP_1588_CLOCK` here because PTP_1588_CLOCK has its own dependencies, which `select` would not transitively apply. Additionally, remove the `select NET_PTP_CLASSIFY` from CPTS_TI_MOD; PTP_1588_CLOCK already selects that. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ [2]: NET_DSA_SJA1105_PTP had never declared any type of dependency on PTP_1588_CLOCK (`imply` or otherwise); adding a `depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK` here seems appropriate. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Richard Cochran <[email protected]> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> Cc: Grygorii Strashko <[email protected]> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Fixes: d1cbfd771ce8 ("ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional") Signed-off-by: Clay McClure <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> ---
Could you drop this patch, pls? it's not for stable and can cause build failures. -- Best regards, grygorii
