Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 6 authors, 2020-12-09

Re: [PATCH 2/2] pinctrl: ingenic: Only support SoCs enabled in config

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-12-09 11:06:32
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:13 AM Daniel Palmer [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi Paul and others,

Sorry to hijack this but I actually want to do something similar to
this in some other drivers.
The targets I'm working with have only 64MB of ram so I want to remove
code wherever possible.
Is there any reason to do it like this instead of wrapping the whole
unneeded of_device_id struct in an #ifdef?
For example there is a rule that the compatible strings have to be
present even if the driver isn't usable or something?
No, there is no such rule, but adding lots of #ifdef checks in this
file would be much less readable and more error-prone, as you'd
have to make sure the two #ifdef blocks around the structure
match the one for the ID table, and any function that is called
by more than one SoC has the correct combination of A || B || D
checks, and nobody ever gets that right.

      Arnd

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