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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers: Let several drivers depends on HAS_IOMEM for 'devm_ioremap_resource'
Am 14.07.2014 10:48, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen:
> On 07/14/2014 10:31 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Am 13.07.2014 22:17, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 09:33:38PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>> Maybe we could add COMPILE_TEST to the version string too?
>>>> Just to detect such kernels fast in user bug reports...
>>>
>>> What kind of bug report are you going to get?
>>
>> User manages to enable CONFIG_FOO by selecting COMPILE_TEST and
>> complains that it does not work. :)
>
> These drivers are typically drivers for some SoC peripheral and the device will simply physically not exist on a platform that does not provide HAS_IOMEM. This is not really any
> different from making the driver selectable via COMPILE_TEST for any other platform. To hit the issue you'd have to instantiate a device driver instance for a device that
> physically does not exist. This will always result in a failure.

Okay, you have convinced me. :)

Thanks,
//richard


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