Re: [PATCH] ACPI: bus.c: Let acpi_device_get_match_data() return DT compatibility data

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Jul 03 2018 - 17:31:26 EST


On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Nikolaus Voss
<nikolaus.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When using ACPI with ACPI_DT_NAMESPACE_HID/ PRP0001 HID and referring to
> of_device_id table "compatible" strings in DSD, a pointer to the
> corresponding DT table entry should be returned instead of a null
> pointer. An acpi_device_id match still takes precedence.

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve here.
This works solely for ACPI case.
For PRP0001 (which is just a _temporary_ solution for device in
question) we have special code path in SPI and I2C cores.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc3/ident/acpi_driver_match_device


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko