linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 1/1] serial: 8250_dw: Drop wrong use of ACPI

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Date:   Tue,  5 Oct 2021 16:45:16 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/1] serial: 8250_dw: Drop wrong use of ACPI_PTR()

ACPI_PTR() is more harmful than helpful. For example, in this case
if CONFIG_ACPI=n, the ID table left unused which is not what we want.

Instead of adding ifdeffery here and there, drop ACPI_PTR().

Fixes: 6a7320c4669f ("serial: 8250_dw: Add ACPI 5.0 support")
Reported-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
index d13c2e58f50f..cf87022e73e4 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static struct platform_driver dw8250_platform_driver = {
 		.name		= "dw-apb-uart",
 		.pm		= &dw8250_pm_ops,
 		.of_match_table	= dw8250_of_match,
-		.acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(dw8250_acpi_match),
+		.acpi_match_table = dw8250_acpi_match,
 	},
 	.probe			= dw8250_probe,
 	.remove			= dw8250_remove,
-- 
2.33.0