Re: [PATCH] crypto: keembay-ocs - Drop obsolete dependency on COMPILE_TEST

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Aug 19 2022 - 07:02:42 EST


On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:47:55PM +0200, 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Declan Murphy <declan.murphy@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniele Alessandrelli <daniele.alessandrelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Prabhjot Khurana <prabhjot.khurana@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/keembay/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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