linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: bus.c: Let acpi_device_get_match

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Message-ID: <CAHp75VeKbXA1wtJr_u0y+Ndjouf2GH51UHsLcsC6s32kWtA3zw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 01:31:26 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@...wensteinmedical.de>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@...il.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@...aro.org>, nv@...n.de,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: bus.c: Let acpi_device_get_match_data() return DT
 compatibility data

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:31 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Nikolaus Voss
> <nikolaus.voss@...wensteinmedical.de> wrote:
>> When using ACPI with ACPI_DT_NAMESPACE_HID/ PRP0001 HID and referring to
>> of_device_id table "compatible" strings in DSD, a pointer to the
>> corresponding DT table entry should be returned instead of a null
>> pointer. An acpi_device_id match still takes precedence.
>
> I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve here.
> This works solely for ACPI case.

Okay, now, after a bit of browsing sources, I got your problem.
Indeed, we have acpi_of_match_device() which returns matched OF item,
but no caller is interested in it...


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko