Re: [PATCH] mtd: onenand: omap2: Drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST

[Miquel Raynal]

On Tue, 2022-11-22 at 19:29:57 UTC, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@xxxxxx>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel