Re: [PATCH] thermal: Drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Aug 03 2022 - 13:17:01 EST


On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 7:08 PM Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 03/08/2022 19:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 2:13 PM Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> 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.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Talel Shenhar <talel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Daniel, I can pick up this one if that's OK. Any concerns?
>
> No concerns, I'm fine with it

OK, applied, thanks!

> >> ---
> >> drivers/thermal/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> --- linux-5.18.orig/drivers/thermal/Kconfig 2022-05-22 21:52:31.000000000 +0200
> >> +++ linux-5.18/drivers/thermal/Kconfig 2022-07-31 13:51:55.009394318 +0200
> >> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ config THERMAL_EMULATION
> >>
> >> config THERMAL_MMIO
> >> tristate "Generic Thermal MMIO driver"
> >> - depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
> >> + depends on OF
> >> depends on HAS_IOMEM
> >> help
> >> This option enables the generic thermal MMIO driver that will use
> >> @@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ config SPRD_THERMAL
> >>
> >> config KHADAS_MCU_FAN_THERMAL
> >> tristate "Khadas MCU controller FAN cooling support"
> >> - depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
> >> + depends on OF
> >> depends on MFD_KHADAS_MCU
> >> select MFD_CORE
> >> select REGMAP
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jean Delvare
> >> SUSE L3 Support
>
>
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