Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] soc: remove direct accesses to of_root from drivers/soc/

On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:18:38 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] said:

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 10:28:26AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM Rob Herring [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 02:37:15PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

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linux/of.h declares a set of variables providing addresses of certain
key OF nodes. The pointers being variables can't profit from stubs
provided for when CONFIG_OF is disabled which means that drivers
accessing these variables can't profit from CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST=y
coverage.

There are drivers under drivers/soc/ that access the of_root node. This
series introduces new OF helpers for reading the machine compatible and
model strings, exports an existing SoC helper that reads the machine
string from the root node and finally replaces all direct accesses to
of_root with new or already existing helper functions.

Merging strategy: first two patches should be either acked by Rob or
picked up into an immutable branch based on v7.0-rc1, the rest can go
through the SoC tree.

SoC tree is good.

For all but patch 8,

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>

FYI Rob also reviewed patch 8 now. Who would pick the patches up? Greg
KH? There does not seem to be a centralized SoC maintainer in
MAINTAINERS?

Sure, let me take them now, thanks.

greg k-h

In the meantime Geert sent an alternative to patch 8/9 so this single one can
be dropped from the series.

Thanks,
Bartosz