Re: [PATCH] drivers/soc/litex: drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST

Re: [PATCH] drivers/soc/litex: drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST

[Gabriel L. Somlo]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 16:16:18 +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() and
> ifdef-guarding, as we now know what they will resolve to, we might as
> well save cpp some work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> Cc: Karol Gugala <kgugala@antmicro.com>
> Cc: Mateusz Holenko <mholenko@antmicro.com>
> Cc: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@gmail.com>
> Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

Reviewed-by: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@gmail.com>

Arnd: since it's been a while (sorry about that), please advise on
whether Jean should re-send the original patch, unless you can grab
it directly from here and pull it through the soc tree:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221125142756.3e51a28d@endymion.delvare/

Thanks much,
--Gabriel

> ---
>  drivers/soc/litex/Kconfig          |    2 +-
>  drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.c |    4 +---
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-6.0.orig/drivers/soc/litex/Kconfig
> +++ linux-6.0/drivers/soc/litex/Kconfig
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ config LITEX
>  
>  config LITEX_SOC_CONTROLLER
>  	tristate "Enable LiteX SoC Controller driver"
> -	depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
> +	depends on OF
>  	depends on HAS_IOMEM
>  	select LITEX
>  	help
> --- linux-6.0.orig/drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.c
> +++ linux-6.0/drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.c
> @@ -82,13 +82,11 @@ static int litex_reset_handler(struct no
>  	return NOTIFY_DONE;
>  }
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_OF
>  static const struct of_device_id litex_soc_ctrl_of_match[] = {
>  	{.compatible = "litex,soc-controller"},
>  	{},
>  };
>  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, litex_soc_ctrl_of_match);
> -#endif /* CONFIG_OF */
>  
>  static int litex_soc_ctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
> @@ -131,7 +129,7 @@ static int litex_soc_ctrl_remove(struct
>  static struct platform_driver litex_soc_ctrl_driver = {
>  	.driver = {
>  		.name = "litex-soc-controller",
> -		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(litex_soc_ctrl_of_match)
> +		.of_match_table = litex_soc_ctrl_of_match,
>  	},
>  	.probe = litex_soc_ctrl_probe,
>  	.remove = litex_soc_ctrl_remove,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean Delvare
> SUSE L3 Support
>