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Message-ID: <f518b66b-6ce0-6828-8e67-a1f572b951b4@axentia.se>
Date:   Sat, 26 Nov 2022 22:44:19 +0100
From:   Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mux: mmio: drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST

Hi!

2022-11-24 at 13:37, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Since commit 0166dc11be91 ("of: make CONFIG_OF user selectable"), it
> is possible to test-build any driver which depends on OF on any
> architecture by explicitly selecting OF. Therefore depending on
> COMPILE_TEST as an alternative is no longer needed.
> 
> 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.
> Dropping COMPILE_TEST here improves the quality of our testing and
> avoids wasting time on non-existent issues.
> 
> As a minor optimization, this also lets us drop of_match_ptr(), as we
> now know what it will resolve to, we might as well save cpp some work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>

Yes, entirely reasonable. I have pushed this out to the mux for-next
branch. That said, it's probably a bit late for the upcoming merge
window...

Cheers,
Peter

> ---
>  drivers/mux/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  drivers/mux/mmio.c  |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-6.0.orig/drivers/mux/Kconfig
> +++ linux-6.0/drivers/mux/Kconfig
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ config MUX_GPIO
>  
>  config MUX_MMIO
>  	tristate "MMIO/Regmap register bitfield-controlled Multiplexer"
> -	depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
> +	depends on OF
>  	help
>  	  MMIO/Regmap register bitfield-controlled Multiplexer controller.
>  
> --- linux-6.0.orig/drivers/mux/mmio.c
> +++ linux-6.0/drivers/mux/mmio.c
> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int mux_mmio_probe(struct platfor
>  static struct platform_driver mux_mmio_driver = {
>  	.driver = {
>  		.name = "mmio-mux",
> -		.of_match_table	= of_match_ptr(mux_mmio_dt_ids),
> +		.of_match_table	= mux_mmio_dt_ids,
>  	},
>  	.probe = mux_mmio_probe,
>  };
> 
> 

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