From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: kconfig: When possible, compile drivers with COMPILE_TEST
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:42:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444862561.2220.81.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444857220-26595-1-git-send-email-luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-14 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-14 21:13 [PATCH] scsi: kconfig: When possible, compile drivers with COMPILE_TEST Luis de Bethencourt
2015-10-14 22:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2015-10-14 22:42 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2015-10-14 23:30 ` Luis de Bethencourt
2015-10-14 23:39 ` James Bottomley
2015-10-16 13:08 ` Luis de Bethencourt
2015-10-15 1:11 ` kbuild test robot
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