Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2018 12:01:02 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] Allow compile-testing NO_DMA |
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:14:46AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> The intention of this is twofold: > 1. To catch users of the DMA API on systems that do no support the DMA > mapping API, > 2. To avoid building drivers that cannot work on such systems anyway. > > However, the disadvantage is that we have to keep on adding dependencies > on HAS_DMA all over the place.
> Thanks to the COMPILE_TEST symbol, lots of drivers now depend on one or > more platform dependencies (that imply HAS_DMA) || COMPILE_TEST, thus > already covering intention #2. Having to add an explicit dependency on > HAS_DMA here is cumbersome, and hinders compile-testing.
Thanks for doing this, hopefully it'll make everyone's life easier!
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