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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:59:12 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 RFC] Revert "net: stmmac: fix build failure due to
 missing COMMON_CLK dependency"
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> This reverts commit bde4975310eb1982bd0bbff673989052d92fd481.
>
> All legacy clock implementations now implement clk_set_rate() (Some
> implementations may be dummies, though).
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> ---
> Marked "RFC", as this depends on "m68k: coldfire: Normalize clk API" and
> "MIPS: AR7: Normalize clk API".

This seems reasonable. It's possible that it will cause regressions because the
COMMON_CLK dependency hides another dependency on something else
that not everything implements, but we should fix that properly if that happens.

       Arnd