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

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Mar 26 2024 - 15:20:55 EST


On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 07:10:09PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 08:52:53PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 06:49:58PM +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.
>
> > Oh, oh, my bad I missed acpi_dev_uid_to_integer() call.
> > Okay, with that in mind it's functional dependency for the ACPI-based
> > platforms. Do you want to keep it untouched?
>
> That's not actually what I was thinking of (please read what I wrote
> above, like I say I was thining about hiding things) but surely if that
> was a reason to keep the dependency it'd need to be an actual ACPI
> dependency rather than an ||?

For my knowledge there is none of the ACPI-based platform where CONFIG_ACPI
needs to be 'n' while having the real device (as per ACPI ID table) to be on.
That's why I answered purely from the compilation point of view.

Personally I see that dependency more confusing than hinting about anything.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko