From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754606AbbJNWmo (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:42:44 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:50928 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753263AbbJNWmn (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:42:43 -0400 Message-ID: <1444862561.2220.81.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: kconfig: When possible, compile drivers with COMPILE_TEST From: James Bottomley To: Luis de Bethencourt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:42:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1444857220-26595-1-git-send-email-luisbg@osg.samsung.com> References: <1444857220-26595-1-git-send-email-luisbg@osg.samsung.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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