Am 13.07.2014 15:56, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen: > On 07/13/2014 03:40 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Am 13.07.2014 15:26, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen: >>> On 07/13/2014 11:45 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>>> Am 13.07.2014 11:27, schrieb Lennox Wu: >>>>> As I said before, some configurations don't make sense. >>>> >>>> If such a configuration can be achieved using allmod/yesconfig it has to >>>> be fixed. >>>> Chen's fixes seem reasonable as not all architectures support iomem. >>> >>> Maybe we should stub out ioremap() and friends when COMPILE_TEST is enabled >>> to avoid these linker errors. That's in my opinion better than turning most >>> of the 'depends on >>> COMPILE_TEST' into 'depends on COMPILE_TEST && HAS_IOMEM'. The issue comes >>> up quite a lot and it is often overlooked when adding a driver that can be >>> build when COMPILE_TEST is >>> enabled. >> >> And what should this stub do? >> Except calling BUG()... > > return NULL; > > It's for compile testing, it's not meant to work at runtime.
Hm, I really don't like the idea of having a non-working kernel. IMHO either it should build _and_ run and nothing else. Greg, what do you think? Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
