On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 00:30 +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > On 14/10/15 23:42, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 22:13 +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > >> These drivers only have runtime but no build time dependencies, so they can > >> be built for testing purposes if the Kconfig COMPILE_TEST option is enabled. > >> > >> This is useful to have more build coverage and make sure that drivers are > >> not affected by changes that could cause build regressions. > > > > I don't think I understand the purpose. If the object is to build a > > load of old ISA drivers, why not just turn on CONFIG_ISA in the test > > build? That's how I build test SCSI on my systems. > > > > James > > > > > > Hi James, > > The idea is that the more drivers are built with make allyesconfig, the better. > > I added COMPILE_TEST to all the drivers that can be built without having ISA, > since they depend on runtime and not in build time. I understand your point, > which raises the question of why isn't CONFIG_ISA set to Y in make allyesconfig. > > Would this be possible? It happens today, but it depends on architecture. An allyesconfig on ia32 should have it set and possibly a few others. There's no reason an x86-64 couldn't have it set, it's just that x86-64 was the architecture break where ISA was discontinued, so there's no real point building that configuration. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
