Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Extend device_get_match_data() to struct bus_type

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 09:05:10AM +0000, Biju Das wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 15:18:52 +0300
> > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 01:37:12PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 05:54:07PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

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> > > > So in legacy ID lookup path we can safely assume that values below
> > > > 4096 are scalars and return NULL from the new
> > > > device_get_match_data(). This way current drivers using the values
> > > > as indices or doing direct comparisons against them can continue
> > > > doing manual look up and using them as they see fit. And we can
> > convert the drivers at our leisure.
> > >
> > > It's a good idea, but I believe will be received as hack.
> > > But why not to try? We indeed have an error pointers for the last page
> > > and NULL (which is only up to 16 IIRC) and reserved space in the first
> > > page. To be more robust I would check all enums that are being used in
> > > I2C ID tables for maximum value and if that is less than 16, use
> > > ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR() instead of custom stuff.
> > >
> > See iio/adc/max1363 example that has 37ish.
> > 
> > Could tidy that one up first and hopefully not find any others that are in
> > subsystems not keen on the move away from enums.
> 
> If there is no objection, I can fix this using i2c_get_match_data() for
> iio/adc/max1363 and device_match_data() will return ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR()
> if max enum ID in the ID lookup table is less than 16. And the drivers
> that use legacy ID's will fallback to ID lookup. So that there won't be
> any regression.

I'm good with this approach, but make sure you checked the whole kernel source
tree for a such.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko