Re: [PATCH v2] iio: bme680_i2c: Remove ACPI support

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu May 06 2021 - 09:38:00 EST


On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 12:28:40PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 6:43 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > With CONFIG_ACPI=n and -Werror, 0-day reports:
> >
> > drivers/iio/chemical/bme680_i2c.c:46:36: error:
> > 'bme680_acpi_match' defined but not used
> >
> > Apparently BME0680 is not a valid ACPI ID. Remove it and with it
> > ACPI support from the bme680_i2c driver.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> with the SPI part amended in the same way.
>
Right. I just sent a patch doing that. Oddly enough 0-day didn't complain
about that one to me, nor about many other drivers with the same problem.
No idea how it decides if and when to make noise.

Is there a way to determine invalid ACPI IDs ? I could write a coccinelle
script to remove the code automatically.

Thanks,
Guenter