Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: ethernet: Add driver for Sunplus SP7021

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Nov 04 2021 - 10:55:33 EST


On 11/4/21 5:59 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 05:31:57AM +0000, Wells Lu 呂芳騰 wrote:
Hi,

Thanks a lot for review.


config NET_VENDOR_SUNPLUS
bool "Sunplus devices"
default y
depends on ARCH_SUNPLUS

Does it actually depend on ARCH_SUNPLUS? What do you make use of?

ARCH_SUNPLUS will be defined for Sunplus family series SoC.
Ethernet devices of Sunplus are designed and used for Sunplus SoC.
So far, only two SoC of Sunplus have the network device.
I'd like to show up the selection only for Sunplus SoC.

So it does not actually depend on ARCH_SUNPLUS. There are a few cases
where drivers have needed to call into arch specific code, which stops
them building for any other arch.

Ideally, you want it to also build with COMPILE_TEST, so that the driver gets
build by 0-day and all the other build bots.

I am not sure if this is mandatory or not.
Should I add COMPILE_TEST as below?

depends on ARCH_SUNPLUS | COMPILE_TEST

Yes.

Yes, but use "||" instead of one "|".


Yes, the device is now only for Sunplus SP7021 SoC.
Devices in each SoC may have a bit difference because of adding new
function or improving something.

If it will compile with COMPILE_TEST on x86, mips, etc, you should
allow it to compile with COMPILE_TEST. You get better compile testing
that way.

Andrew



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~Randy