[PATCH RESEND v11 10/13] um: nommu: a work around for MMU dependency to PCI driver
Johannes Berg
johannes at sipsolutions.net
Fri Sep 19 00:24:07 PDT 2025
On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 09:03 +0900, Hajime Tazaki wrote:
> > This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Why would we even want to build
> > PCI on NOMMU-UML if PCI in general is dependent on MMU now?
> >
> > It's not like ARCH=um with PCI and NOMMU has any value even for testing
> > if such a configuration cannot exist in reality?
>
> totally understand your point.
>
> now I see that we don't have to have this work around by using
> --kconfig_add option to kunit.py.
>
> # like --kconfig_add CONFIG_UML_PCI_OVER_VIRTIO=n (in addition to
> --kconfig_add CONFIG_MMU=n).
That's not what I mean. I think it should be made impossible to build
the broken code.
The problem is probably UML_PCI_OVER_VIRTIO selecting UML_PCI selecting
various PCI code, but nothing depends on PCI in the first place. Which
it should, then?
johannes
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