linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] lib: add module support to linked list sorting tests

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Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:28:35 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] lib: add module support to linked list sorting tests

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:

> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 90b2348777495b72..32363ae022e3282a 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -1731,11 +1731,12 @@ config LKDTM
>         Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt
>
>  config TEST_LIST_SORT
> -       bool "Linked list sorting test"
> -       depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> +       tristate "Linked list sorting test"
> +       depends on DEBUG_KERNEL || m

I don't see any other test code with a "DEBUG_KERNEL || m" dependency,
but several that are "DEBUG_KERNEL && m". Maybe we should just
force it to be a module like the others? If there are good reasons to
have it built-in, I'd just drop the "|| m" here.

     Arnd