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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0hgNMWNtkAF7YY24cFvsnGYYYHMW1c4NekaNmyqYf=0tA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:55:07 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] device property: Introduce device_is_compatible()

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 6:12 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Introduce a new helper to tell if device (node) is compatible to the
> given string value. This will help some drivers to get rid of unneeded
> OF APIs/etc and in may help others to be agnostic to OF/ACPI.
>
> While doing it, I have noticed that ACPI_DEVICE_CLASS() macro seems
> defined in unsuitable location. Move it to the better one.
>
> Last patch is an example of what the first two are doing.
>
> The entire series can go, I believe, via ACPI (linux-pm) tree in case
> the last patch gets tag from the respective maintainer.
>
> In v3:
> - added tag to patch 1 (Rafael), patches 2&3 (Sakari)
> - made commit message text wider in patch 3 (Sakari)
>
> In v2:
> - updated commit message and added kernel doc for a new API (Greg)
> - also replaced acpi_device_get_match_data() with the agnostic API
> - tried to keep header inclusions ordered (to some extent)
>
> Andy Shevchenko (3):
>   ACPI: Move ACPI_DEVICE_CLASS() to mod_devicetable.h
>   device property: Implement device_is_compatible()
>   ata: ahci_platform: Make code agnostic to OF/ACPI
>
>  drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c     |  8 ++++----
>  include/linux/acpi.h            | 14 --------------
>  include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 13 +++++++++++++
>  include/linux/property.h        | 12 ++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> --

All applied as 6.5 material, thanks!