netdev - Re: [PATCH v8 01/15] octeontx2-af: Add Marvell OcteonTX2 RVU AF driver

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Date:   Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:20:30 +0530
From:   Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 01/15] octeontx2-af: Add Marvell OcteonTX2 RVU AF driver

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 5:52 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4:59 PM <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/Kconfig
> > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> > +#
> > +# Marvell OcteonTX2 drivers configuration
> > +#
> > +
> > +config OCTEONTX2_AF
> > +       tristate "Marvell OcteonTX2 RVU Admin Function driver"
> > +       depends on ARM64 && PCI
>
> You should try to allow building it on x86 and other architectures, even though
> the driver won't be used there this helps get reports from static
> build infrastructure.
> You could use e.g.
>
>       depends on (64BIT && COMPILE_TEST) || ARM64
>       depends on PCI
>
>            Arnd

Thanks for the suggestion.
But going forward we will have few arm64 assembly instructions used in
the driver.
So a x86 build will fail. And i have built code using sparse and
coverity as well before
submitting patches upstream.

Sunil.