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author | Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> | 2020-12-08 18:28:56 +0300 |
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committer | Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> | 2020-12-21 07:57:08 +0300 |
commit | c613583b6a87434123fc6714acbec6522859185e (patch) | |
tree | 19a36a5202860a5b65ae2efd25af05999d12d1ca | |
parent | 9ab55d7f240fb05f84ec3b5e37f0c3ab2ce69053 (diff) | |
download | linux-c613583b6a87434123fc6714acbec6522859185e.tar.xz |
Documentation/kbuild: Document COMPILE_TEST dependencies
Document best practises for using COMPILE_TEST dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst index 1cf1aebdd6cd..1b4875f04e13 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst @@ -553,6 +553,17 @@ with "depends on m". E.g.:: limits FOO to module (=m) or disabled (=n). +Compile-testing +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +If a config symbol has a dependency, but the code controlled by the config +symbol can still be compiled if the dependency is not met, it is encouraged to +increase build coverage by adding an "|| COMPILE_TEST" clause to the +dependency. This is especially useful for drivers for more exotic hardware, as +it allows continuous-integration systems to compile-test the code on a more +common system, and detect bugs that way. +Note that compile-tested code should avoid crashing when run on a system where +the dependency is not met. + Kconfig recursive dependency limitations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |