There are several indications that make a platform device match a platform driver. For devices that are instantiated by a device tree matching by name, id table or acpi mechanisms doesn't make sense and might result in surprising effects. So limit matching to use the driver's of_match_table for these. Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hello, this issue popped up when it was discussed if of_match_device could return NULL for several different drivers: http://mid.gmane.org/20151112082617.GE24008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mid.gmane.org/20151112074447.GA24008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mid.gmane.org/20151112134519.GJ24008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (and probably more that I'm not aware of). IMHO this doesn't make these fixes obsolete, but YMMV. Thierry: You gave your ack before I wrote a commit log. I added it nevertheless and hope that's ok for you. If not please say so. Best regards Uwe drivers/base/platform.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c index 1dd6d3bf1098..09b2972e60d7 100644 --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -900,8 +900,8 @@ static int platform_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv) return !strcmp(pdev->driver_override, drv->name); /* Attempt an OF style match first */ - if (of_driver_match_device(dev, drv)) - return 1; + if (pdev->dev.of_node) + return of_driver_match_device(dev, drv); /* Then try ACPI style match */ if (acpi_driver_match_device(dev, drv)) -- 2.6.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html