Documentation/kbuild: Document COMPILE_TEST dependencies

Document best practises for using COMPILE_TEST dependencies.
Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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
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