Introduce a new helper to tell if device (node) is compatible to the given string value. This will help some drivers to get rid of unneeded OF APIs/etc and in may help others to be agnostic to OF/ACPI. While doing it, I have noticed that ACPI_DEVICE_CLASS() macro seems defined in unsuitable location. Move it to the better one. Last patch is an example of what the first two are doing. The entire series can go, I believe, via ACPI (linux-pm) tree in case the last patch gets tag from the respective maintainer. Andy Shevchenko (3): ACPI: Move ACPI_DEVICE_CLASS() to mod_devicetable.h device property: Implement device_is_compatible() ata: ahci_platform: Make code agnostic to OF/ACPI drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c | 6 +++--- include/linux/acpi.h | 14 -------------- include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 13 +++++++++++++ include/linux/property.h | 5 +++++ 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.40.0.1.gaa8946217a0b