Re: [PATCH] media: rc: Drop obsolete dependencies on COMPILE_TEST

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 05:09:11PM +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(), as we
> now know what it will resolve to, we might as well save cpp some work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

FTR: I discard this patch from the PWM patchwork as "handled elsewhere".

Best regards
Uwe

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