On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 19:23 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:18:46AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > Some drivers can be built on more platforms than they run on. This
> > causes users and distributors packaging burden when they have to
> > manually deselect some drivers from their allmodconfigs. Or sometimes
> > it is even impossible to disable the drivers without patching the
> > kernel.
> >
> > Introduce a new config option COMPILE_TEST and make all those drivers
> > to depend on the platform they run on, or on the COMPILE_TEST option.
> > Now, when users/distributors choose COMPILE_TEST=n they will not have
> > the drivers in their allmodconfig setups, but developers still can
> > compile-test them with COMPILE_TEST=y.
>
> I understand the urge, and it's getting hard for distros to handle these
> drivers that just don't work on other architectures, but it's really
> valuable to ensure that they build properly, for those of us that don't
> have many/any cross compilers set up.