Re: [PATCH v1 01/10] spi: pxa2xx: Drop ACPI_PTR() and of_match_ptr()

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Mar 26 2024 - 14:50:11 EST


On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 08:44:11PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 06:25:16PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 08:22:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 06:16:28PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > > I think the ACPI dependency there is as much about hiding the device on
> > > > irrelevant platforms as anything else, might be better replaced with an
> > > > x86 dependency though.

..

> > That's nice but I'm not sure what that has to do with the dependency on
> > ACPI?

> ACPI_PTR() makes ID no-op only if ACPI is defined. That also satisfies
> the ugly ifdeffery that is removed by this patch as well. If there is
> no dependency we will have compiler warning for defined but not used
> variable.

Again I don't think that's the main purpose of the dependency here.

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