Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] at24: Drop of_match_ptr() and ACPI_PTR() protections

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 25/02/2025 11:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025, at 11:08, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> These result in a very small reduction in driver size, but at the cost
>> of more complex build and slightly harder to read code. In the case of
>> of_match_ptr() it also prevents use of PRP0001 ACPI based identification.
>> In this particular case we have a valid ACPI/PNP ID that should be used
>> in preference to PRP0001 but doesn't mean we should prevent that route.
>>
>> With this done, drop unneeded of*.h inclusions and __maybe_unused markers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> For reference, see below for a couple of patches in this area that
> I have sent in the past. Ideally I think we should try to fix these
> all up and enable -Wunused-const-variable, which is useful in its
> own right.
> 

I tried to fix this in SPI, regulator and ASoC 2 years ago and Mark
rejected such approach of dropping ACPI/of_match_ptr. AFAIU, Mark wants
this to be fixed in more generic way, on the OF and ACPI common code,
not per driver.

SPI:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/7a65d775-cf07-4393-8b10-2cef4d5266ab@sirena.org.uk/

regulator:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230310214553.275450-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org/

ASoC:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230310214333.274903-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org/



Best regards,
Krzysztof