Re: [PATCH 2/2] ata: octeon: Add compile test support

[Damien Le Moal]

On 6/22/23 22:41, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 10:26 PM Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/22/23 12:01, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On 6/21/23 17:57, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>> On 6/22/23 01:51, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:36:33AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>>> Add COMPILE_TEST to enable building Cavium Octeon drivers in MIPS
>>>>>> allyesconfig/allmodconfig builds. There's a dependency on MIPS headers,
>>>>>> so other arches can't be enabled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Tested on allmodconfig build. Not sure if there's other MIPS configs
>>>>>> where this doesn't work. We'll see what 0-day says.
>>>>>
>>>>> Odd, in next-20230621 I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> Building mips:allmodconfig ... failed
>>>>
>>>> Indeed odd. Given that this is an allmodconfig, I would assume that
>>>> CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC is set ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, it is not. CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC is a choice option,
>>> meaning only one of the choices can be set, and mips:allmodconfig
>>> selects a different choice.
>>
>> OK. Then I think I need to drop this patch as I do not see how to allow
>> COMPILE_TEST without CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC being set.
>>
>> Rob ?
> 
> These could be fixed, but not sure it's worth the effort.

Agreed. And given that we are at rc7 already, this effort should not be now
anyway. I will drop this patch.


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research