From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
richardcochran@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
geert@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/ptp/Kconfig: add "depends on HAS_IOMEM" for 'PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH'
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:44:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D12545.4000108@asianux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D122F0.1000204@nod.at>
On 07/01/2013 02:34 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> config COMPILE_TEST
>> > bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
>> > default n
>> > help
>> > Some drivers can be compiled on a different platform than they are
>> > intended to be run on. Despite they cannot be loaded there (or even
>> > when they load they cannot be used due to missing HW support),
>> > developers still, opposing to distributors, might want to build such
>> > drivers to compile-test them.
>> >
>> > If you are a developer and want to build everything available, say Y
>> > here. If you are a user/distributor, say N here to exclude useless
>> > drivers to be distributed.
>> >
>> > I guess, 'COMPILE_TEST' is really useful for UML.
> No.
>
> We have explained you more than once what the deal and why UML does not
> have ioremap() and friends.
This time, it is not for UML, it is for 'COMPILE_TEST': the
'asm-generic' whether need consider it.
Thanks.
--
Chen Gang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-27 0:52 [PATCH] drivers/ptp/Kconfig: add "depends on HAS_IOMEM" for 'PTP_1588_CLOCK_PCH' Chen Gang
2013-06-27 6:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-06-27 8:21 ` Chen Gang
2013-06-29 4:23 ` David Miller
2013-07-01 1:34 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-01 5:40 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-01 6:09 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-01 6:34 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-01 6:44 ` Chen Gang [this message]
2013-07-01 7:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-01 7:47 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-01 7:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-01 8:17 ` Chen Gang
2013-07-01 11:12 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-01 11:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-02 0:57 ` Chen Gang
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