Re: [PATCH] of: Allow overlay kunit tests to run CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY=n

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>]

Quoting Rob Herring (2024-11-08 08:55:32)
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 09:56:15AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > > Fixes: 5c9dd72d8385 ("of: Add a KUnit test for overlays and test managed APIs")
> > > >
> > > > Doesn't really seem like a fix.
> > >
> > > Ok. Feel free to drop the tag.
> > >
> > > > Does this need to go into 6.12?
> > >
> > > It's only important for 6.12 if kernel configurators want to build the
> > > kernel with OF_OVERLAY_KUNIT_TEST enabled and not be forced to enable
> > > CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY. I don't mind if it waits a while.
> > 
> > I'd say it's a fix, so please keep at last the Fixes tag. Merely
> > enabling kunit tests (which can be modular) should not increase the
> > possible attack vector on a product by enabling extra unneeded code.
> 
> Not sure I buy that that is an actual problem. However, not worth 
> arguing over. I only really care because if there's a Fixes, then this 
> really should go to Linus for 6.12 rather than eventually get 
> auto-selected from 6.13 to go to stable. So I moved it to send to Linus, 
> but I found that CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY is still selected with this patch. 
> That's because the clock kunit tests also select CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY. 
> That's fixed in next, but it's not queued up for 6.12.
> 

I was planning to send the clk patch in the next merge window. Are you
sending the fix now? If you want you can also send the clk side patch
and I can drop it from the clk tree.