Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] Allow compile-testing NO_DMA

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 11:14:46AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> The intention of this is twofold:
>   1. To catch users of the DMA API on systems that do no support the DMA
>      mapping API,
>   2. To avoid building drivers that cannot work on such systems anyway.
> 
> However, the disadvantage is that we have to keep on adding dependencies
> on HAS_DMA all over the place.

> Thanks to the COMPILE_TEST symbol, lots of drivers now depend on one or
> more platform dependencies (that imply HAS_DMA) || COMPILE_TEST, thus
> already covering intention #2.  Having to add an explicit dependency on
> HAS_DMA here is cumbersome, and hinders compile-testing.

Thanks for doing this, hopefully it'll make everyone's life easier!

Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>

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