Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] of: Add a variant of of_device_is_compatible() that can be build time culled

[Daniel Palmer]

Hi Rob,

On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 at 08:38, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 12:07:30PM +0900, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> > In a lot of places we are using of_device_is_compatible() to check for quirks
>
> I'm assuming 'a lot' is not just 3 places? Got a rough estimate?
>
> This seems fine to me assuming there are more.

In core code (like the gpio core, and not in a specific driver) there
are only a few places. I think around 10.
There are more when we get into drivers that handle lots of variants
of the same hardware and check the compatible string during probe.
(There are ~700 calls to of_device_is_compatible() in drivers/, most
of which seems to be quirks checking during probe).

Since this didn't get shot down I'll prepare a version that has more examples.

Thanks,

Daniel