Re: [PATCH v2] gpio: mockup: Allow probing from device tree

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Oct 28 2020 - 17:52:47 EST


On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 8:41 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 2:54 PM Vincent Whitchurch
> <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

> > +#include <linux/of.h>
>
> Please keep the includes ordered alphabetically.

Besides the fact that that is a wrong header to be included.
mod_devicetable.h is the correct one.
(See also below)

...

> > +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> > +static const struct of_device_id gpio_mockup_of_match[] = {
> > + { .compatible = "gpio-mockup", },
> > + {},
> > +};
> > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, gpio_mockup_of_match);
> > +#endif
>
> You don't need this ifdef - of_match_ptr() will evaluate to NULL if
> CONFIG_OF is disabled and the compiler will optimize this struct out.

It's not so. If you drop ugly ifdeffery (and I vote for that, see also
above) the of_match_ptr() must be dropped as well.
Otherwise the compiler will issue the warning. So it is either all or none.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko