Re: [PATCH v2] watchdog: Compile possible drivers with COMPILE_TEST

[Guenter Roeck]

On 10/14/2015 03:11 PM, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> On 14/10/15 22:35, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 10/14/2015 11:55 AM, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> > > These drivers have depends that aren't build dependencies, so it's
> > > a good idea to allow these drivers to always be built when the
> > > COMPILE_TEST option is enabled.
> > >
> > > That way, the drivers can be built with a config generated by make
> > > allyesconfig and check if a patch would break the build.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > What architectures have you actually tested this for ?
> >
> > Guenter
>
> I've compiled it in x86 and then I tried ARM
> (with CROSS_COMPILE="ccache arm-linux-gnueabihf-" ARCH=arm)
>
> But ARM kept failing due to other drivers, first Lustre then an Ethernet
> driver (I40E), and more.
arm:allmodconfig should build fine. Either case, you can always run "make -i"
to ignore errors, to ensure that you at least don't introduce new problems.

> Is there a better way of doing this?
Sure, at least run allmodconfig for _all_ architectures, or at least
for the major architectures.

Guenter

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