linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] modpost: Support I2C Aliases from OF tables

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Date:   Thu, 8 Aug 2019 16:24:17 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>
Cc:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@...asonboard.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] modpost: Support I2C Aliases from OF tables

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 03:12:47PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 06.08.19 19:12, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 
> > Right, we could add a macro for that. Although it should probably be called
> > I2C_OF_MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() or something like that since is specific to OF.
> 
> At that point it should be completely noop when OF is disabled, so we
> also can get rid of many ifdef's.

Why?

> I've got some patch somewhere for introducing a MODULE_OF_TABLE() macro
> as replacement for many MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ...) cases, which noops
> when CONFIG_OF is disabled. (and similar ones for other table types).

It's simple wrong to have #ifdef CONFIG_OF without counterpart of_match_ptr().
And taking into consideration that ID table itself doesn't depend to OF at all,
why not simple drop that #ifdef and of_match_ptr() all together?


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko