Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] ethernet/intel: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK dependencies

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 3:10 PM G, GurucharanX [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

The 'imply' keyword does not do what most people think it does, it only
politely asks Kconfig to turn on another symbol, but does not prevent it from
being disabled manually or built as a loadable module when the user is built-
in. In the ICE driver, the latter now causes a link failure:

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Tested-by: Gurucharan  G <redacted> (A Contingent Worker at Intel)

Sorry for the delay. I had remembered that there was a previous discussion
about that option but couldn't find the thread at first.

I now found
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAK8P3a3=eOxE-K25754+fB_-i_0BZzf9a9RfPTX3ppSwu9WZXw@mail.gmail.com/ (local)

and will add Richard to Cc for my new version as well, just in case he
has objections
to this version and wants to fix it differently.

       Arnd