[PATCH v4] mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: simplify CFE detection

[Florian Fainelli]

On 9/28/2020 7:16 AM, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote on Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:26:19
> -0700:
> 
>> On 9/21/20 8:18 PM, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 14:26, Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:17:40AM +0200, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
>>>>> Instead of trying to parse CFE version string, which is customized by some
>>>>> vendors, let's just check that "CFE1" was passed on argument 3.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari at gmail.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski at gmail.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
>>>>   
>>>
>>> We still see mips: allmodconfig build failure on Linus tree
>>>    
>>
>> Yes, same here.
> 
> Perhaps this check should be done by an exported helper so that we do
> not blindly export the variable?
> 
> Alvaro, Jonas, can one of you try to address this issue please?

We should probably just make the parser 'bool' there is no much point 
building this as a module, it will not improve compile time coverage, 
and it will most likely not help with the kernel image size on the 
platforms that require the parser to be there anyway.
-- 
Florian