From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Elizabeth Ferdman <gnudevliz@gmail.com>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, amsfield22@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] vc04_services driver question
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 07:32:47 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1610070731260.3074@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161007053033.GA13812@localhost>
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Elizabeth Ferdman wrote:
> I noticed a new driver vc04_services was just added and that the Kconfig
> says it depends on BROKEN. The tutorial specifically says not to work on
> drivers that have that in the depends on line. However, I also noticed
> that patches were being accepted for rtl8712 and greybus and those
> have BROKEN in the Kconfig as well... so is it ok to submit patches for
> that one or even a patchset?
Yes.
> My other question is if we are doing simple cleanups and manage to run
> make path/to/file.o and create a new .o file in the directory, is it ok not
> to run $ make -j2 && sudo make modules_install, etc. ? Today I wasn't
> able to run that successfully because of a bug that got through in the
> latest update, something to do with x86 architecture, but I still wanted
> to get some patches in...
Yes, ok not to do it in general. You have to evaluate whether your change
could impact other files. You may want to compile the driver, but not the
whole kernel.
julia
>
> Thanks,
> Liz
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-07 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-07 5:30 vc04_services driver question Elizabeth Ferdman
2016-10-07 5:32 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2016-10-07 12:56 ` [Outreachy kernel] " Greg KH
2016-10-08 1:39 ` Elizabeth Ferdman
2016-10-09 14:42 ` Greg KH
2016-10-08 18:29 ` Elizabeth Ferdman
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