Re: [PATCH] platform: fall-back to driver name check if there is noid found

[Eric Miao]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Hein Tibosch <hein_tibosch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Andy, Mika,
>
> On 8 Feb 2013, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
>> Some of the platform devices rely on the name of their driver to match with. In
>> the current implementation, if platform id table is needed, they have to add
>> the name to the platform id table which sounds alogical. The patch adjustes the
>> logic of the id table matching to make sure we will fall-back to match by the
>> driver name. This will make it similar to the DT or ACPI cases.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reported-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/base/platform.c |    4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
>> index c0b8df3..452ba4b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/platform.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
>> @@ -732,8 +732,8 @@ static int platform_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
>>               return 1;
>>
>>       /* Then try to match against the id table */
>> -     if (pdrv->id_table)
>> -             return platform_match_id(pdrv->id_table, pdev) != NULL;
>> +     if (pdrv->id_table && platform_match_id(pdrv->id_table, pdev))
>> +             return 1;
>>
>>       /* fall-back to driver name match */
>>       return (strcmp(pdev->name, drv->name) == 0);
>
> When I upgraded an avr32 system from 3.8 to a recent next release, I found it was
> broken: DMA was not available because the dw_dma driver did not get probed anymore.
>
> The dw_dma driver does have a id_table, but the boards in arch/avr32 are still expecting
> driver identification by name.

I think this is a different philosophy here. I'm actually fine with either. The
questions are really:

1. will it be a bit inconsistent if the driver is using id_table,
while the device
is still using a legacy way?

2. instead of introducing a different logic in the platform driver core code,
is it possible this could be fixed at the board level?

>
> As long as we want to support this simple identification-by-name, I'd say Andy's patch
> should get quickly into stable release.
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