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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: kconfig: When possible, compile drivers with
 COMPILE_TEST
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:42:41 -0700
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On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 22:13 +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> These drivers only have runtime but no build time dependencies, so they can
> be built for testing purposes if the Kconfig COMPILE_TEST option is enabled.
> 
> This is useful to have more build coverage and make sure that drivers are
> not affected by changes that could cause build regressions.

I don't think I understand the purpose.  If the object is to build a
load of old ISA drivers, why not just turn on CONFIG_ISA in the test
build? That's how I build test SCSI on my systems.

James