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

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Geert Uytterhoeven (2018-11-09 01:56:01)
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 7:37 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Quoting Rob Herring (2018-11-06 12:44:52)
> > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:36 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         int (*probe)(struct platform_device *pdev);
> >   };
> >
> >   struct of_platform_driver_probe_func mtk_probes[] = {
> >         mtk_probe1,
> >         mtk_probe2,
> >         mtk_probe3,
> >   };
> >
> >   struct platform_driver mtk_driver = {
> >         .of_probes = &mtk_probes;
> >         .driver = {
> >                 .name = "mtk-foo";
> >                 .of_match_table = mtk_match_table,
> >         },
> >   };
> 
> This looks worse to me: people tend to be very good at keeping multiple
> arrays in sync :-(

To be _not_ very good? Agreed, and so specifying the probe function as
another member in struct of_device_id seems to be the way to go.