Re: [PATCH] Adding a support for Skyworks SKY81452

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Fri Aug 08 2014 - 03:09:35 EST


On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 02:34:39PM +0200, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> On 2014-08-07 at 10:05:38 +0200, Gyungoh Yoo <gyungoh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> > +static const struct of_device_id sky81452_of_match[] = {
> > + {.compatible = "sky,sky81452",},
> > + { }
> > +};
> > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sky81452_of_match);
> > +#endif
>
> The #ifdefery here is not needed since you use of_match_ptr below, whcih
> will expand to NULL of CONFIG_OF is not set.

On the contrary, that's exactly why the #ifdef is needed here. If you
don't guard the OF match table here, then of_match_ptr() evaluating to
NULL will cause the table to become unused and the compiler warning
about it.

Thierry

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