Re: [PATCH] gpio: tegra: don't auto-enable for COMPILE_TEST

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I stumbled over a build error with COMPILE_TEST and CONFIG_OF
> disabled:
>
> drivers/gpio/gpio-tegra.c: In function 'tegra_gpio_probe':
> drivers/gpio/gpio-tegra.c:603:9: error: 'struct gpio_chip' has no member named 'of_node'
>
> The problem is that the newly added GPIO_TEGRA Kconfig symbol
> does not have a dependency on CONFIG_OF. However, there is another
> problem here as the driver gets enabled unconditionally whenever
> COMPILE_TEST is set.
>
> This fixes both problems, by making the symbol user-visible
> when COMPILE_TEST is set and default-enabled for ARCH_TEGRA=y.
>
> As a side-effect, it is now possible to compile-test a Tegra
> kernel with GPIO support disabled, which is harmless.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 4dd4dd1d2120 ("gpio: tegra: Allow compile test")

Patch applied.

I'm starting to get a bit tired about anything related to compile testing.

It's not like I don't understand that it is good to test-build things ...

It's just that enabling this turns up so many strange compile bugs to
the left and right that it takes focus away from core development.
I don't know what can be done to alleviate the situation.

Yours,
Linus Walleij