linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] spi/drivers: Restrict COMPILE_TEST by HAS

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Date:	Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:39:09 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] spi/drivers: Restrict COMPILE_TEST by HAS_DMA where needed

Hi Mark,

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 06:10:31PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> commit dd1053a93fdc11d4 ("spi/drivers: Enable build of drivers with
>>> COMPILE_TEST") allows compile-testing drivers on platforms they're not
>>> meant for.
>>
>>> However, adding "|| COMPILE_TEST" bypasses all other implicit dependencies
>>> assumed by the platform dependencies before, like HAS_DMA.
>>
>> I'm wondering if it isn't better to have the non-DMA platforms define
>> stub (always error) DMA functions instead - it's less error prone and
>> with SPI there's a bunch of drivers which can run perfectly usefully
>> without DMA while optionally supporting DMA.
>
> The SPI problem will sort itself out once all SPI master drivers have been
> converted to use the SPI DMA core ;-)

BTW, the dmaengine API has stubs, only the low-level dma-mapping API
doesn't. That's why e.g. spi-rspi doesn't need a dependency on HAS_DMA.
So it's indeed a good thing to handle the low-level DMA mapping in the
subsystem's core, as only that part can be optional and depend on HAS_DMA.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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