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Message-ID: <20180704105349.GA14665@e107155-lin>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 11:53:49 +0100
From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To: Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@...wensteinmedical.de>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
Srinath Mannam <srinath.mannam@...adcom.com>,
"Voss, Dr. Nikolaus" <Nikolaus.Dr.Voss@...wensteinmedical.de>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Ray Jui <ray.jui@...adcom.com>,
Vladimir Olovyannikov <vladimir.olovyannikov@...adcom.com>,
Vikram Prakash <vikram.prakash@...adcom.com>,
Scott Branden <scott.branden@...adcom.com>,
ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>, nv@...n.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPI: bus: match of_device_id using acpi device
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Nikolaus Voss wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> >
[...]
> >+1 on NACK for this and anything else that abuse PRP0001 as a short cut
> >approach.
>
> This is no abuse but exactly what PRP0001 is meant for. The basic idea of
> PRP0001 is to reuse DT "compatible" strings in ACPI namespace, see
> Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt. Reusing also means getting access to the
> of_device_id.
>
Sorry for not being descriptive. It has been discussed a lot in past and
I assume someone would had gone through them, so gave no information in
my response.
> Allocating an ACPI id for an already existing DT driver is redundant, isn't it?
>
I think Andy had provided the summary and the intentions. Rafael has also
confirmed, I have nothing else to add.
--
Regards,
Sudeep
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