Re: [PATCH v2] spi/drivers: Restrict COMPILE_TEST by HAS_DMA where needed

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Aug 29 2014 - 15:13:30 EST


Hi Mark,

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 06:10:31PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> commit dd1053a93fdc11d4 ("spi/drivers: Enable build of drivers with
>> COMPILE_TEST") allows compile-testing drivers on platforms they're not
>> meant for.
>
>> However, adding "|| COMPILE_TEST" bypasses all other implicit dependencies
>> assumed by the platform dependencies before, like HAS_DMA.
>
> I'm wondering if it isn't better to have the non-DMA platforms define
> stub (always error) DMA functions instead - it's less error prone and
> with SPI there's a bunch of drivers which can run perfectly usefully
> without DMA while optionally supporting DMA.

The SPI problem will sort itself out once all SPI master drivers have been
converted to use the SPI DMA core ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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