Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ethernet/intel: fix PTP_1588_CLOCK dependencies

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 10:32 PM Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

config MAY_USE_PTP_1588_CLOCK
       def_tristate PTP_1588_CLOCK || !PTP_1588_CLOCK

 config E1000E
        tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support"
        depends on PCI && (!SPARC32 || BROKEN)
+       depends on MAY_USE_PTP_1588_CLOCK
        select CRC32
-       imply PTP_1588_CLOCK

I've written up the patch to do this all over the kernel now, and started an
overnight randconfig build session with this applied:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground.git/commit/?h=ptp-1588-optional&id=3f69b7366cfd4b2c048c76be5299b38066933ee1

       Arnd