linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH leds v2 05/50] leds: various: guard of_match_table member value with of_match

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Date:   Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:20:58 +0200
From:   Marek Behun <marek.behun@....cz>
To:     Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Dan Murphy <dmurphy@...com>,
        Ondřej Jirman <megous@...ous.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@...il.com>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@...il.com>,
        Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH leds v2 05/50] leds: various: guard of_match_table
 member value with of_match_ptr

On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:15:00 +0300
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Marek,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:32:53AM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> > Change
> >   .of_match_table = xxx,
> > to
> >   .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(xxx),
> > in various drivers.
> > 
> > This should be standard even for drivers that depend on OF.  
> 
> After this patch, none of these drivers will work on ACPI systems anymore.

Hi Sakari,

I don't understand. Why not? Does ACPI subsystem parse of_match_table
as well?