On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 08:57:34AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote: > 'asm-generic' neither belongs to architectures nor belongs to modules, > it provides public services to both modules and architectures. That sentence does not make any sense to me. > 'COMPILE_TEST=y' will let 'asm-generic' provide self checking sevices to > both modules and architectures (especially with allmodconfig and > "EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W") No it doesn't. > For modules (especially which will run under the specific architecture > soon), the developer can find more compiling issues before they really > support it. Huh? > For architectures, can let modules compile as much as possible (if > "COMPILE_TEST=y"), it will give a better check for the architectures. > > At present, most of architectures (include various machine/cpu in an > architecture) can not pass compiling with 'allmodconfig'. One of the > main reasons is the HW of the specific architecture does not support. > > It is neither architectures issue nor modules issue, the root cause is: > "now, 'asm-generic' doesn't provide the related necessary public > services for it". That's not what asm-generic is for at all. confused, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
