Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver

Dan Carpenter
2020-02-05T03:39:18Z

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 12:31:16PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 08:06:14PM +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 07:09 +0000, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 04:02:15AM +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 10:21 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > My advice is to delete all the COMPILE_TEST code. That stuff was a
> > > constant source of confusion and headaches.
> >
> > I was also going to suggest this. Since the COMPILE_TEST has been a
> > source of trouble I was going to propose dropping the || COMPILE_TEST
> > from the Kconfig for the octeon drivers.
>
> Not having it also causes problems. I didn't originally add it for
> shits and giggles.

I wonder if the kbuild bot does enough cross compile build testing these
days to detect compile problems. It might have improved to the point
where COMPILE_TEST isn't required.

One of the things about having a bunch of dummy functions for
COMPILE_TEST is that they introduce a lot of static checker warnings.
The real function is supposed to initialize stuff but the dummy function
just returns so now we get uninitialized variable warnings etc.

regards,
dan carpenter