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Date:   Mon, 9 Mar 2020 11:19:24 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] firmware: imx: Add stubs for !CONFIG_IMX_SCU case
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On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 06:30:54PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 09/03/2020 10:10:12-0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 05:47:05PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > On 09/03/2020 06:27:06-0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > On 3/9/20 4:06 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > > > On 09/03/2020 08:38:14+0800, Anson Huang wrote:
> > > > >> Add stubs for those i.MX SCU APIs to make those modules depending
> > > > >> on IMX_SCU can pass build when COMPILE_TEST is enabled.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
> > > > >> ---
> > > > >> Changes since V2:
> > > > >> 	- return error for stubs.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm not sure why you are sending v3 with the stubs as we determined that
> > > > > 2/7 is enough to compile all the drivers with COMPILE_TEST.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > 2/7 alone is not sufficient. With only 2/7, one can explicitly configure
> > > > IMX_SCU=n, COMPILE_TEST=y, and get lots of compile failures. Granted,
> > > > one should not do that, but 0day does (I don't know if that is the result
> > > > of RANDCONFIG), and I am not looking forward having to deal with the
> > > > fallout.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > How would that be possible if the drivers all depend on IMX_SCU?
> > > 
> > That dependency is being changed to IMX_SCU || COMPILE_TEST
> > as part of the series.
> > 
> 
> Yes, my point is that those patches should not be applied at all, only
> 2/7.

Ah, now I get it. Sorry, I missed that part. You are correct, that would
be sufficient, and I would very much prefer that approach.

Thanks,
Guenter