linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] firmware: imx: Add stubs for !CONFIG_IMX

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Date:   Mon, 9 Mar 2020 17:47:05 +0100
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@....com>, shawnguo@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] firmware: imx: Add stubs for !CONFIG_IMX_SCU case

On 09/03/2020 06:27:06-0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 3/9/20 4:06 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 09/03/2020 08:38:14+0800, Anson Huang wrote:
> >> Add stubs for those i.MX SCU APIs to make those modules depending
> >> on IMX_SCU can pass build when COMPILE_TEST is enabled.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@....com>
> >> ---
> >> Changes since V2:
> >> 	- return error for stubs.
> > 
> > I'm not sure why you are sending v3 with the stubs as we determined that
> > 2/7 is enough to compile all the drivers with COMPILE_TEST.
> > 
> > 
> 2/7 alone is not sufficient. With only 2/7, one can explicitly configure
> IMX_SCU=n, COMPILE_TEST=y, and get lots of compile failures. Granted,
> one should not do that, but 0day does (I don't know if that is the result
> of RANDCONFIG), and I am not looking forward having to deal with the
> fallout.
> 

How would that be possible if the drivers all depend on IMX_SCU?


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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
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