On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 04:43:40PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > > The of_match_ptr(foo) macro evaluates to foo, only if > > CONFIG_OF is set, otherwise to NULL. Same does ACPI_PTR with > > CONFIG_ACPI. That's very helpful for drivers that can be used > > with or without oftree / acpi. > > > > Even though most of the drivers touched here probably don't > > actually need that, it's also nice for consistency to make it > > the de-facto standard and change all drivers to use the > > of_match_ptr() and ACPI_PTR() macros. > > > > A nice side effect: in some situations, when compiled w/o > > CONFIG_OF/CONFIG_ACPI, the corresponding match tables could > > automatically become unreferenced and optimized-away by the > > compiler, w/o explicitly cluttering the code w/ ifdef's. > > Isn't this going to cause a lot of "defined but unused" warnings when > built without OF support, for example? Yes, it will. It also looks like there are some whitespace changes in the patch, unless of course that's just Git playing tricks! -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog