Re: [PATCH 1/4] of/device: Add a way to probe drivers by match data

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:36 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have a handful of clk drivers that have a collection of slightly
> variant device support keyed off of the compatible string. In each of
> these drivers, we demux the variant and then call the "real" probe
> function based on whatever is stored in the match data for that
> compatible string. Let's generalize this function so that it can be
> re-used as the platform_driver probe function directly.

This looks really hacky to me. It sounds kind of general, but really
only works if we have match data that's a single function and we lose
any type checking on the function. What about things other than
platform devices?

Rob