[PATCH] gpio: GPIO_MVEBU should not default to y when compile-testing

Bartosz Golaszewski brgl at bgdev.pl
Tue Dec 3 12:29:02 PST 2024


On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 9:13 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 05:23:16PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Merely enabling compile-testing should not enable additional
> > functionality.
>
> Sorry for being dumb, but i don't actually see what is wrong here.
>
> There are 4 GPIO drivers which have
>
>         def_bool y
>
> COMPILE_TEST is about building as much as possible, in order to find
> build bugs. So i don't get what you mean by additional
> functionality. No additional functionality within the MVEBU driver
> gets enabled by COMPILE_TEST.
>
>         Andrew

No, Geert is right. I have been yelled at by Linus Torvalds already
for too eagerly enabling too many options. COMPILE_TEST is really
about making it possible to build more things with make allmodconfig,
not necessarily defaulting to y for everything.

Bart



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