Am 18.07.2014 12:44, schrieb Chen Gang: > On 07/18/2014 03:35 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Am 18.07.2014 02:36, schrieb Chen Gang: >>> >>> On 07/18/2014 02:09 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>>> Am 17.07.2014 12:48, schrieb Arnd Bergmann: >>>>> AFAICT, NO_IOMEM only has a real purpose on UML these days. Could we take >>>>> a shortcut here and make COMPILE_TEST depend on !UML? Getting random stuff >>>>> to build on UML seems pointless to me and we special-case it in a number of >>>>> places already. >>>> >>>> If UML is the only arch without io memory the dependency on !UML seems >>>> reasonable to me. :-) >>>> >>> >>> For me, if only uml left, I suggest to implement dummy functions within >>> uml instead of let CONFIG_UML appear in generic include directory. And >>> then remove all HAS_IOMEM and NO_IOMEM from kernel. >> >> Erm, this is something completely different. >> I thought we're focusing on COMPILE_TEST? >> > > COMPILE_TEST is none-architecture specific, but UML is. So in generic > include folder, if we're focusing on choosing whether COMPILE_TEST or > UML, for me, I will choose COMPILE_TEST. > > If we're not only focusing on COMPILE_TEST, for me, if something only > depend on one architecture, I'd like to put them under "arch/*/" folder. > > Especially, after that, we can remove all HAS_IOMEM and NO_IOMEM, nobody > has to think of them again. :-) And then we end up with a solution that on UML a lot of completely useless drivers are build which fail in various interesting manners because you'll add stubs for all kinds of io memory related functions to arch/um/? We had this kind of discussion already. You'll need more than ioremap... I like Arnd's idea *much* more to make COMPILE_TEST depend on !UML. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
