Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] firmware: arm_scmi: Add Quirks framework

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:54:06 +0100,
Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 03:11:07PM +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> > Add a common framework to describe SCMI quirks and associate them with a
> > specific platform or a specific set of SCMI firmware versions.
> > 
> > All the matching SCMI quirks will be enabled when the SCMI core stack
> > probes and after all the needed SCMI firmware versioning information was
> > retrieved using Base protocol.
> > 
> > Tested-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
> 
> Hi
> 
> just a quick remarks that a bot spotted the usage of __VA_OPT__ which is
> only available since GCC >= 8.0 :< ... so I will probably revert to use the
> previous, less clean, mechanism to build the NULL terminated array in
> which the compats array WILL HAVE to be explicitly NULL terminated when
> provided (even the empty ones...)

See 20250407094116.1339199-1-arnd@kernel.org, which is slated for
6.16. The TL;DR is that GCC 8.1 and binutils 2.30 should be the
minimal versions from 6.16 onwards.

So it's probably not worth using ugly hacks that will eventually be
reverted.

Thanks,

	M.

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