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Message-ID: <72446c510f05480f9967c32df8787d46@sphcmbx02.sunplus.com.tw>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:03:43 +0000
From: Wells Lu 呂芳騰 <wells.lu@...plus.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
Wells Lu <wellslutw@...il.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: Add driver for Sunplus SP7021
> > No, we only develop arm-based SoC, never for x86 or mips.
> > We never compile the driver for x86 or mips machine.
>
> You don't, but the Linux community does build for those architectures. Most
> people do tree wide refactoring work using x86. Tree wide cleanups using x86,
> etc. Any changes like that could touch your driver. The harder is it to build, the
> less build testing it will get, and tree wide changes which break it are less likely
> to get noticed. So you really do want it to compile cleanly for all
> architectures. If it does not, it normally actually means you are doing
> something wrong, something you need to fix anyway. So please do build it for
> x86 and make sure it builds cleanly.
>
> Andrew
Ok, I understand.
I'll add COMPILE_TEST and compile driver for x86.
Thanks,
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