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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:09 PM Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

OF-only users shouldn't take care about this. If you are sure that the
driver may not be used on a non-OF platform.

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

I guess you are a bit late, but you always may propose patches to ACPI
maintainers.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko