Re: [RFC PATCH 02/15] dt: add a match table pointer to struct device

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Feb 23 2011 - 13:29:12 EST


Grant,

On 02/22/2011 10:33 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
Add a new .of_match field to struct device which points at the
matching device driver .of_match_table entry when a device is probed
via the device tree

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely<grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/device.h | 1 +
include/linux/of_device.h | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index ca5d252..8d8e267 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ struct device {
struct dev_archdata archdata;

struct device_node *of_node; /* associated device tree node */
+ const struct of_device_id *of_match; /* matching of_device_id from driver */

Couldn't of_match/of_match_table be merged into the platform dev/drv id_entry/id_table. Handling MODALIAS for a driver that does both OF style and normal platform device matching may be a problem though.

Rob
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