Re: [PATCH] media: rc: Drop obsolete dependencies on COMPILE_TEST

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Sun Dec 11 2022 - 15:57:12 EST


On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 05:09:11PM +0100, 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@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/rc/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> drivers/media/rc/pwm-ir-tx.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-6.0.orig/drivers/media/rc/Kconfig
> +++ linux-6.0/drivers/media/rc/Kconfig
> @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ config IR_PWM_TX
> tristate "PWM IR transmitter"
> depends on LIRC
> depends on PWM
> - depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
> + depends on OF
> help
> Say Y if you want to use a PWM based IR transmitter. This is
> more power efficient than the bit banging gpio driver.
> @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ config IR_SERIAL_TRANSMITTER
> config IR_SPI
> tristate "SPI connected IR LED"
> depends on SPI && LIRC
> - depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
> + depends on OF
> help
> Say Y if you want to use an IR LED connected through SPI bus.
>
> --- linux-6.0.orig/drivers/media/rc/pwm-ir-tx.c
> +++ linux-6.0/drivers/media/rc/pwm-ir-tx.c
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static struct platform_driver pwm_ir_dri
> .probe = pwm_ir_probe,
> .driver = {
> .name = DRIVER_NAME,
> - .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(pwm_ir_of_match),
> + .of_match_table = pwm_ir_of_match,
> },
> };
> module_platform_driver(pwm_ir_driver);

That hunk makes sense even without the Kconfig change. ACPI makes use of
.of_match_table, so

.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(pwm_ir_of_match),

is (almost?) always wrong.

Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards
Uwe

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