linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: Let several drivers depends on HAS_IOMEM for 'devm_ioremap

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:55:50 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, teg@...m.no,
	Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>, Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
	Liqin Chen <liqin.linux@...il.com>, msalter@...hat.com,
	linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	knaack.h@....de, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Mischa.Jonker@...opsys.com, jic23@...nel.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: Let several drivers depends on HAS_IOMEM for
 'devm_ioremap_resource'

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:33:32PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2014 11:56:58 Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:20:36AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > [...]
> > >                       score should set HAS_IOMEM and doesn't
> > > even have public compilers
> > 
> > This begs an interesting question. Should it be made a requirement to
> > have publicly available compilers for new architectures so that they can
> > at least be compile-tested? Preferably this would of course be in source
> > form so that there aren't any dependencies on the distribution.
> 
> The question has come up a few times. I wouldn't mandate that the port
> has an upstream gcc (you've got to start mainlining one of them first
> after all), but having compilers available for download should probably be
> required. It's hard to ask for a particular quality of that gcc port
> though, or to expect it to stay available online.
> 
> Where did you find the gcc port for score?

It's upstream, though marked obsolete and to be removed in the next
release... =)

Thierry

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