Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] [media] ad5820: Add support for of-autoload

From: Sakari Ailus
Date: Thu Sep 20 2018 - 16:18:39 EST


Hi Laurent,

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:10:23PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, ad5820_of_table);
> > +
> > static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(ad5820_pm, ad5820_suspend, ad5820_resume);
> >
> > static struct i2c_driver ad5820_i2c_driver = {
> > .driver = {
> > .name = AD5820_NAME,
> > .pm = &ad5820_pm,
> > + .of_match_table = ad5820_of_table,
>
> As the driver doesn't depend on CONFIG_OF, would it make sense to use
> of_config_ptr() (and to compile the of table conditionally on CONFIG_OF) ?

You get ACPI support as a bonus if you don't use of_config_ptr(). :-) Other
changes could be needed but this enables probing the driver for a device.

In this case the probability of anyone using this device on an ACPI system
could be pretty low though.

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Regards,

Sakari Ailus
e-mail: sakari.ailus@xxxxxx