Re: [Outreachy kernel][PATCH 1/4 v2] staging: media: omap4iss: Replace macro function by static inline function in file iss.c

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Apr 12 2021 - 13:36:53 EST




On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, ascordeiro wrote:

> Em seg, 2021-04-12 às 18:11 +0300, Laurent Pinchart escreveu:
> > Hi Aline,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:58:45AM -0300, ascordeiro wrote:
> > > Em seg, 2021-04-12 às 16:40 +0300, Laurent Pinchart escreveu:
> > > > While testing on a device isn't a requirement as you can't be
> > > > expected
> > > > to have the necessary hardware, changes are expected to be at
> > > > least
> > > > compile-tested before being submitted.
> > >
> > > Hi Laurent,
> > >
> > > I thought recompiling the kernel would be enough in this case.
> > > I recompiled it in native Ubuntu 16.04 without errors.
> >
> > Did it compile the driver you modified ?
> >
> I'm sorry, It didn't. I forgot to enable the option to compile the
> driver as a module in "make menuconfig" and now I'm seeing the problems
> I generated.

You can easily compile a single file using make path/foo.o and a single
directory using make path/.

julia