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From: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
To: "Leonardo Brás" <leobras.c@gmail.com>
Cc: lkcamp@lists.libreplanetbr.org,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org,
	oprofile-list@lists.sf.net, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7]  Remove errors building drivers/DRIVERNAME
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 09:56:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181001075607.GA3776@rric.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180928020816.11251-1-leobras.c@gmail.com>

On 27.09.18 23:08:09, Leonardo Brás wrote:
> This Patchset changes some driver's Makefile to allow them building
> using the command 'make drivers/DRIVERNAME', if compatible.
> 
> The changed drivers would return error if the above command was run
> on them, after an x86 allyesconfig.

I don't see what you are trying to achieve here. Why shouldn't the
command fail if it is not the intended way to call it? There are a
couple of use cases where drivers/ is used to share common code over
different archs and it is not always the intention to build them in
drivers/ directly.

> 
> The main reason of this patchset is to allow building lists of
> drivers looking for warnings and errors to be fixed.

If a list is the intention here, aren't there other ways to create it
other than using drivers/*?

-Robert

> 
> I see this change as a new feature, not a bugfix. I understand
> the default bahavior may be building with a simple 'make', but I
> believe adding this new possibility will not be harmful.
> 
> My main objective is to allow developers with low processing power
> to do changes in the kernel and look bugs using free services like
> GiltabCI, before submitting to community.
> 
> If there is any interest helping/using this, I have a prototype in:
> https://gitlab.com/LeoBras/linux-next

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-01  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-28  2:08 [PATCH v3 0/7] Remove errors building drivers/DRIVERNAME Leonardo Brás
2018-09-28  2:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] drivers: dio: Avoids building driver if CONFIG_DIO is disabled Leonardo Brás
2018-09-28  2:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] drivers: nubus: Avoids building driver if CONFIG_NUBUS " Leonardo Brás
2018-09-28  2:08 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] drivers: parisc: Avoids building driver if CONFIG_PARISC " Leonardo Brás
2018-09-28  7:15   ` James Bottomley
2018-10-04  0:31     ` Leonardo Bras
2018-10-04  4:41       ` James Bottomley
2018-10-05  2:16         ` Leonardo Bras
2018-10-05  4:10           ` Finn Thain
2018-10-06  4:28           ` Michael Schmitz
2018-10-10  1:01             ` Leonardo Bras
2018-09-28  2:08 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] drivers: zorro: Avoids building proc.o if CONFIG_ZORRO " Leonardo Brás
2018-09-28  2:08 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] drivers: s390: Avoids building drivers if ARCH is not s390 Leonardo Brás
2018-10-01 12:46   ` Heiko Carstens
2018-10-04  1:00     ` Leonardo Bras
2018-09-28  2:08 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] drivers: oprofile: Avoids building driver from direct make command Leonardo Brás
2018-09-28  2:08 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] drivers: hwtracing: Adds Makefile to enable building from directory Leonardo Brás
2018-10-01  7:56 ` Robert Richter [this message]
2018-10-03 15:46   ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Remove errors building drivers/DRIVERNAME Leonardo Bras
2018-10-03 23:27     ` Finn Thain
2018-10-04  1:37       ` Leonardo Bras
2018-10-04  2:00         ` Finn Thain
2018-10-10  1:04           ` Leonardo Bras

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