From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chen Gang 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 Message-ID: <51D12545.4000108@asianux.com> References: <51CB8CB7.6010006@asianux.com> <20130628.212311.1348427834856668120.davem@davemloft.net> <51D0DCB5.5060106@asianux.com> <51D11661.7040604@nod.at> <51D11D14.8000706@asianux.com> <51D122F0.1000204@nod.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , richardcochran@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org To: Richard Weinberger Return-path: Received: from intranet.asianux.com ([58.214.24.6]:38529 "EHLO intranet.asianux.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750987Ab3GAGpM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jul 2013 02:45:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <51D122F0.1000204@nod.at> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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