Re: [PATCH v4] ACPI: bus: Align acpi_device_get_match_data() with driver match order

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 10:14 AM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Kartik,
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 01:53:06PM +0530, Kartik Rajput wrote:
> > During pre-production development, drivers may provide both ACPI and OF
> > match tables while a formal ACPI HID for the device is not yet
> > allocated. Such devices are enumerated via PRP0001. In this case,
> > acpi_device_get_match_data() consults only the driver’s ACPI match table
> > and returns NULL, even though the device was successfully matched via
> > PRP0001.
> >
> > This behavior also risks breaking existing PRP0001 setups if a driver
> > later gains an ACPI HID, as the presence of an ACPI match table changes
> > the match-data lookup path.
> >
> > Make acpi_device_get_match_data() use the same precedence as driver
> > matching by using __acpi_match_device(). Return match data from the
> > acpi_id or of_id that was actually matched.
> >
> > Remove now-unused acpi_of_device_get_match_data().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kartik Rajput <kkartik@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you for the update, this looks really nice now.
>
> Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied as 6.20 material, thanks!