Re: [PATCH 0/7] drm: Extend COMPILE_TEST support to some ARM drivers

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Sam,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 06:53:33PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:37:29PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This patch series stems from subsystem-wide changes I wanted to
> > compile-test with an ARM64 cross-compiler. My laziness to fire a 32-bit
> > ARM build probably resulted in more time being spent writing these
> > patches, but hopefully they'll turn out to be useful for more people :-)
> > 
> > Patches 1/7 and 2/7 are fixes for compilation warnings on 64-bit
> > platforms in the omapdrm and sti-drm drivers. They are a dependency for
> > the Kconfig changes that follow to avoid introducing build warnings, but
> > could also be merged before.
> > 
> > Patches 3/7 to 7/7 enable compilation of the imx-dcss, omapdrm, sti-drm,
> > tegra-drm and tilcdc drivers on ARM64 with COMPILE_TEST. The patches are
> > independent from each other, so they can be picked by their respective
> > maintainers.
> > 
> > We could also extend test compilation to more architecture, but I didn't
> > want to remove all dependencies on ARM or ARM64 at this point for fear
> > or triggering build warnings that I wouldn't be able to catch locally.
> > If there's a consensus that fully relaxing the platform requirement is
> > better, I can submit a new version that does so and rely on the 0day bot
> > to catch issues.
>
> I have alpha, sparc64, and a few more so we can get pretty good coverage
> before it hits -next.

It seems that the consensus is to enable COMPILE_TEST on all platforms,
so I'll do that.

> If we enable more build coverage then please address all W=1 warnings
> first.
> 
> I for once always builds with W=1 these days, and I see more and more
> warnings sneaking in again.
> So lets try to keep the noise level down.

Hmmmm... I build my kernel with -Werror to make sure I catch all
warnings. W=1 doesn't play well with that :-S I'll see if I can turn the
additional warnings into non-errors, but that may become a game of
whack-a-mole.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart