Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] platform/x86: fujitsu: Bind drivers to platform devices instead of ACPI ones

[Jonathan Woithe]

Hi Rafael

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 09:41:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> This series is part of a larger effort to switch over all drivers using
> the struct acpi_driver interface to the more common struct platform_driver
> interface and eliminate the former.  The background is explained in
> Documentation/driver-api/acpi/acpi-drivers.rst and in the changelog of
> the patch that introduced the above document:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/2396510.ElGaqSPkdT@rafael.j.wysocki/
> 
> The bottom line is that the kernel would be better off without struct
> acpi_driver and so it is better to get rid of it.
> 
> This series carries out driver conversions of the platform x86 drivers
> for Fujitsu platforms.
> 
> Patch [1/5] converts the fujitsu-tablet to a proper platform one based
> on the struct platform_driver interface.
> 
> Patch [2/5] rearranges the code in the fujitsu-laptop driver to avoid
> introducing forward declarations of some functions in the subsequent
> patches.
> 
> Patch [3/5] updates the fujitsu-laptop driver to install ACPI notify
> handlers by itself instead of using .notify() callbacks from struct
> acpi_driver, which is requisite for the driver conversion.
> 
> Patches [4-5/5] replaces two instances of the struct acpi_driver
> interface in the fujitsu-laptop driver with struct platform_driver.

Thanks for preparing this patch series.  It looks reasonable to me.  At this
point I have nothing to add.

Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards
  jonathan