Re: [PATCH] drivers: gpio: use of_match_ptr() and ACPI_PTR() macros

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:56 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:54 AM Uwe Kleine-König
> > <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:45:37PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > So a system without CONFIG_OF might still make use of .of_match_table?
> >
> > Yep!
> 
> If you are curious:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/acpi/bus.c#L615

This still doesn't sit quite well with me.

Not the process of ACPI using OF artifacts or the possibilty to embed
OF type structures into ACPI tables, but the fact that an OF-only user
(or so they think) should have to care about that special use-case.

What if we make ACPI select OF?  Or handle the ACPI case explicitly in
the of_match_ptr() declaration?

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