[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 00/21] Allow compile-testing NO_DMA (drivers)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Herbert,

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 02:51:33PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> This patch series:
>>   - Removes dependencies on HAS_DMA for symbols that already have
>>     platform dependencies implying HAS_DMA.
>>
>> To avoid allmodconfig/allyesconfig regressions on NO_DMA=y platforms,
>> this (drivers) series should be applied after the previous (core)
>> series (but not many people may notice/care ;-)
>>
>> Changes compared to v1:
>>   - Add Reviewed-by, Acked-by,
>>   - Drop dependency of SND_SOC_LPASS_IPQ806X on HAS_DMA,
>>   - Drop dependency of VIDEOBUF{,2}_DMA_{CONTIG,SG} on HAS_DMA,
>>   - Drop new dependencies of VIDEO_IPU3_CIO2, DVB_C8SECTPFE, and
>>     MTD_NAND_MARVELL on HAS_DMA,
>>   - Split in per-subsystem patches,
>>   - Split-off the core part in a separate series.
>>
>> This series is against v4.16-rc5. It can also be found at
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k.git/log/?h=no-dma-compile-testing-v2
>>
>> It has been compile-tested with allmodconfig and allyesconfig for
>> m68k/sun3, and has received attention from the kbuild test robot.
>
> Do these patches have any dependencies? Can they be applied directly
> in a subsystem tree?

| To avoid allmodconfig/allyesconfig regressions on NO_DMA=y platforms,
| this (drivers) series should be applied after the previous (core)
| series (but not many people may notice/care ;-)

Apart from introducing build failures in allmodconfig/allyesconfig builds on
(uncommon) NO_DMA=y platforms, they can be applied directly and individually.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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