... > > > + > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_OF > > > > As a general rule, we are trying to clear out protections on CONFIG_OF etc > > and use of of_match_ptr() on the basis they don't really gain us anything > > and prevent use of some other firmware types. Here I guess you know what > > your firmware looks like, but I'm still keen to drop it in the interests > > of there being fewer places to copy it from. > > > > It may be a good idea to give this a more specific name as well given > > we already have cros-ec-prox as a platform device id from > > the cros_ec_light_prox driver. > > Alright. I renamed it to cros_ec_mkbp_proximity throughout this driver. > I'm concerned about dropping CONFIG_OF because of_match_ptr() and > CONFIG_OF=n makes it unused but I suppose that will be OK as long as > compilation passes.
It's a trivial overhead + note that it can be used by certain ACPI tables. Lookup the delights of PRP0001 which lets ACPI use device-tree descriptions. It may well be that no one uses that for this driver, but it's nice not to exclude it and that works with CONFIG_OF=n. Jonathan