Hi Boris,
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:09 PM Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is an attempt at adding "depends || COMPILE_TEST" to all NAND
> drivers that have no compile-time dependencies on arch
> features/headers.
>
> This will hopefully help us (NAND/MTD maintainers) in detecting build
> issues earlier. Unfortunately we still have a few drivers that can't
> easily be modified to be arch independent.
>
> I tried to put all patches that only touch the NAND subsystem first,
> so that they can be applied even if other patches are being discussed.
>
> Don't hesitate to point any missing dependencies when compiled with
> COMPILE_TEST. I didn't have any problem when compiling, but that might
> be because the dependencies were already selected.
>
> I have Question for Geert. I know you worked on HAS_DMA removal when
> combined with COMPILE_TEST, do you plan to do something similar with
> HAS_IOMEM?
No plans for that.
NO_IOMEM is Richard's itch, now s390 has gained PCI support.
NO_DMA matters for UML and Sun-3.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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