On 15/10/15 00:39, James Bottomley wrote: > 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 > > Hi James, That makes sense. Thanks for the information, I understand this a lot better now. Luis -- 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
