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From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
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Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
        Naga Sureshkumar Relli <nagasure@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: Drop obsolete dependencies on COMPILE_TEST
Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:36:16 +0100
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On Thu, 2022-11-24 at 10:59:46 UTC, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Since commit 0166dc11be91 ("of: make CONFIG_OF user selectable"), it
> is possible to test-build any driver which depends on OF on any
> architecture by explicitly selecting OF. Therefore depending on
> COMPILE_TEST as an alternative is no longer needed.
> 
> It is actually better to always build such drivers with OF enabled,
> so that the test builds are closer to how each driver will actually be
> built on its intended target. Building them without OF may not test
> much as the compiler will optimize out potentially large parts of the
> code. In the worst case, this could even pop false positive warnings.
> Dropping COMPILE_TEST here improves the quality of our testing and
> avoids wasting time on non-existent issues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
> Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
> Cc: Naga Sureshkumar Relli <nagasure@xilinx.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel