linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: Drop obsolete dependencies on COMPILE

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Message-ID: <Y3+hR9MYueN1FNZd@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:52:23 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: Drop obsolete dependencies on COMPILE_TEST

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 02:47:08PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:

> It is actually better to always build such drivers with OF enabled,
> so that the test builds are closer to how each driver will actually be
> built on its intended target. Building them without OF may not test
> much as the compiler will optimize out potentially large parts of the
> code. In the worst case, this could even pop false positive warnings.

Having the ability to build without OF doesn't preclude testing with OF
of course.

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