From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning in Linus' tree Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:29:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20161028092920.4d84f8f1@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Dmitry Vyukov , linux-next , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-next.vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> >> I wonder if we should make KASAN depend on !COMPILE_TEST, because it >> does seem to disable a lot of build-time testing. > > Actually, we should probably just make the MEMORY_HOTPLUG dependency be > > depends on COMPILE_TEST || !KASAN > > since the memory-hotplug code should still *build* with KASAN, it just > doesn't work. That's exactly what the COMPILE_TEST config option is > there for - to get build coverage even for things that aren't > necessarily sane to run. In what way does it not work? Does it crash? People do run COMPILE_TEST=y/allmodconfig kernels. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds