Re: [PATCH] Revert "firmware: vpd: remove platform driver"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 01:57:49PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> This reverts commit 7975bd4cca05a99aa14964cfa22366ee64da50ad, because
> VPD relies on driver core to handle deferrals returned by
> coreboot_table_find().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Greg, here is the revert we discussed.
> 
> I will look into whether we could make coreboot table not use deferrals,
> but some mother mechanism to notify users that the data is available.
> The entities we are dealing here with are not really hardware devices
> and I consider using platform devices/drivers for them misuse of the
> driver model, but for now it needs to stay as it was.

If they aren't platform devices, then why just make them "virtual"
devices, using a simple device_create() call with no parent?

thanks,

greg k-h