Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] i2c: Enable compile testing for some of drivers

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:31:20 +0100

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:12:28AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> >  config I2C_ZX2967
> >  	tristate "ZTE ZX2967 I2C support"
> > -	depends on ARCH_ZX
> > -	default y
> > +	depends on ARCH_ZX || (COMPILE_TEST && (ARC || ARM || ARM64 || M68K || RISCV || SUPERH || SPARC))
> > +	# COMPILE_TEST needs architectures with readsX()/writesX() primitives
> 
> The list of archs neither looks pretty nor very maintainable. My
> suggestion is that we leave this out of COMPILE_TEST until we have
> something like ARCH_HAS_READS or something. What do you think?

Indeed it does not look good. However having compile testing allows
kbuild to run sparse and smatch which already started pointing minor
issues in existing drivers.

Yeah... pros and cons... I don't have a strong opinion to keep it. Since
patch is important, maybe let's just skip this part?

Best regards,
Krzysztof