linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] edac, highbank: remove dependency on ARCH

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Message-ID: <20131108144700.GB7044@x1.alien8.de>
Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2013 15:47:21 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Doug Thompson <dougthompson@...ssion.com>,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] edac, highbank: remove dependency on ARCH_HIGHBANK

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 02:59:18PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> Can't we just take
>
>  depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC && (ARCH_MULTI_V7 || ARM64)
>
> as a first step to increase build coverage?

Yep, that's basically what I was suggesting.

> There is also COMPILE_TEST that could be used which is exactly what we
> want here: "Compile also drivers which will not load":
> 
>  depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC && (ARCH_MULTI_V7 || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST)
> 
> This should enable it with allmodconfig.

You could do this but the first is already coverage enough IMO and, as I
said previously, compiling this thing on other architectures could raise
bugs/issues which are not necessarily such on arm/arm64, for example.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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