Re: [PATCH] edac, highbank: remove dependency on ARCH_HIGHBANK

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Nov 08 2013 - 09:45:20 EST


On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 02:59:18PM +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> Can't we just take
>
> depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC && (ARCH_MULTI_V7 || ARM64)
>
> as a first step to increase build coverage?

Yep, that's basically what I was suggesting.

> There is also COMPILE_TEST that could be used which is exactly what we
> want here: "Compile also drivers which will not load":
>
> depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC && (ARCH_MULTI_V7 || ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST)
>
> This should enable it with allmodconfig.

You could do this but the first is already coverage enough IMO and, as I
said previously, compiling this thing on other architectures could raise
bugs/issues which are not necessarily such on arm/arm64, for example.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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