| From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Thu, 14 May 2020 23:40:36 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.6 30/62] net: Make PTP-specific drivers depend on PTP_1588_CLOCK |
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On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 8:52 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote: > > From: Clay McClure <clay@daemons.net> > > [ 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."
I don't think this one should be backported unless 3a9dd3ecb207 ("kconfig: make 'imply' obey the direct dependency") is already backported to v5.6 (which I don't think it should either).
Arnd
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