Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: dw-axi-dmac: Drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Mon Sep 05 2022 - 02:34:12 EST


On 03-08-22, 22:34, 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.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod