Re: [PATCH] clk: aspeed: ast2700: select AUXILIARY_BUS

On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 18:03 +0200, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> The AST2700 clock driver also exposes the SoC reset controller: it hands
> its register base to a reset auxiliary device via
> devm_auxiliary_device_create(), which the separate ASPEED reset driver
> (RESET_ASPEED) then binds to. That create call needs the auxiliary bus
> core (AUXILIARY_BUS), not the reset driver itself, but COMMON_CLK_AST2700
> does not select AUXILIARY_BUS.
> 
> It builds today only because RESET_ASPEED selects AUXILIARY_BUS and is
> normally enabled alongside the clock driver. On a randconfig with
> COMMON_CLK_AST2700=y and RESET_ASPEED=n, nothing pulls the auxiliary bus
> in and the kernel fails to link:
> 
>   ld: drivers/clk/aspeed/clk-ast2700.o: in function `ast2700_soc_clk_probe':
>   clk-ast2700.c:(.text+0x147c): undefined reference to `__devm_auxiliary_device_create'
> 
> Select AUXILIARY_BUS directly, as other clock drivers that create
> auxiliary devices do, so it builds regardless of the reset driver.
> 
> Fixes: fdc1eb624ddc ("clk: aspeed: add AST2700 clock driver")
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <[email protected]>