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Message-Id: <20260119-soc-of-root-v1-5-32a0fa9a78b4@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:40:16 +0100
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@....qualcomm.com>
To: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
        "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@...nel.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...nel.org>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
        Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>
Cc: devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        imx@...ts.linux.dev, linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@....qualcomm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] soc: imx8m: don't access of_root directly

Don't access of_root directly as it reduces the build test coverage for
this driver with COMPILE_TEST=y and OF=n. Use existing helper functions
to retrieve the relevant information.

Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@....qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c b/drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c
index 04a1b60f2f2b52cc374714f9a1205496c1762f39..925a9aed756103a5a74d5d840b54a2179cd78061 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/imx/soc-imx8m.c
@@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ static int imx8m_soc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	const struct imx8_soc_data *data;
 	struct imx8_soc_drvdata *drvdata;
 	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
-	const struct of_device_id *id;
 	struct soc_device *soc_dev;
 	u32 soc_rev = 0;
 	u64 soc_uid[2] = {0, 0};
@@ -240,15 +239,11 @@ static int imx8m_soc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	soc_dev_attr->family = "Freescale i.MX";
 
-	ret = of_property_read_string(of_root, "model", &soc_dev_attr->machine);
+	ret = soc_device_get_machine(soc_dev_attr);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	id = of_match_node(imx8_soc_match, of_root);
-	if (!id)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
-	data = id->data;
+	data = device_get_match_data(dev);
 	if (data) {
 		soc_dev_attr->soc_id = data->name;
 		ret = imx8m_soc_prepare(pdev, data->ocotp_compatible);
@@ -322,7 +317,7 @@ static int __init imx8_soc_init(void)
 	int ret;
 
 	/* No match means this is non-i.MX8M hardware, do nothing. */
-	if (!of_match_node(imx8_soc_match, of_root))
+	if (!of_machine_device_match(imx8_soc_match))
 		return 0;
 
 	ret = platform_driver_register(&imx8m_soc_driver);

-- 
2.47.3