Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] soc: remove direct accesses to of_root from drivers/soc/

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 02:37:15PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > linux/of.h declares a set of variables providing addresses of certain
> > key OF nodes. The pointers being variables can't profit from stubs
> > provided for when CONFIG_OF is disabled which means that drivers
> > accessing these variables can't profit from CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST=y
> > coverage.
> >
> > There are drivers under drivers/soc/ that access the of_root node. This
> > series introduces new OF helpers for reading the machine compatible and
> > model strings, exports an existing SoC helper that reads the machine
> > string from the root node and finally replaces all direct accesses to
> > of_root with new or already existing helper functions.
> >
> > Merging strategy: first two patches should be either acked by Rob or
> > picked up into an immutable branch based on v7.0-rc1, the rest can go
> > through the SoC tree.
>
> SoC tree is good.
>
> For all but patch 8,
>
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

FYI Rob also reviewed patch 8 now. Who would pick the patches up? Greg
KH? There does not seem to be a centralized SoC maintainer in
MAINTAINERS?

Bart