Currently there is a number of drivers that somewhat incorrectly register themselves as acpi_driver, while they should be registering as platform_drivers. acpi_device was never meant to represent actual device, it only represents an entry in the ACPI table and ACPI driver should be treated as a driver for the ACPI entry of the particular device, not the device itself. Drivers of the devices itself should register as platform_drivers. Replace acpi_driver with platform_driver for all relevant drivers in drivers/acpi directory. This is just the first part of the change, as many acpi_drivers are present in many files outside of drivers/acpi directory. Additionally during internal review we've decided that it's best to send the relevant patches sequentially, in order not to overwhelm the reviewers. So I'm starting with NFIT and AC drivers. This change is possible thanks to recent .notify callback removal in drivers/acpi [1]. So flow for the remaining acpi_drivers will look like this: 1) Remove .notify callback with separate patchset for drivers/platform and other outstanding places like drivers/hwmon, drivers/iio etc. 2) Replace acpi_driver with platform_driver, as aside for .notify callback they're mostly functionally compatible. Most of the patches in this series could be considered independent, and could be merged separately, with a notable exception of the very first patch in this series that changes notify installer wrappers to be more generic. I decided it would be best not to force the user of this wrappers to pass any specific structure, like acpi_device or platform_device. It makes sense as it is very often the case that drivers declare their own private structure which gets allocated during the .probe() callback, and become the heart of the driver. In that case it makes much more sense to pass this structure to notify handler. Additionally some drivers, like acpi_video that already have custom notify handlers do that already. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20230703080252.2899090-1-michal.wilczynski@xxxxxxxxx/ [1] v3: - in AC transformation patch replaced struct device* with struct acpi_device*, as suggested. v2: - dropped first, second and last commit. Last commit was deemed pointless, first and second are already merged. - rebased on top of modified first commit (changes in the wrappers) Michal Wilczynski (6): ACPI: AC: Remove unnecessary checks ACPI: AC: Use string_choices API instead of ternary operator ACPI: AC: Replace acpi_driver with platform_driver ACPI: AC: Rename ACPI device from device to adev ACPI: NFIT: Replace acpi_driver with platform_driver ACPI: NFIT: Remove redundant call to to_acpi_dev() drivers/acpi/ac.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++---------------------- drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c | 38 +++++++-------- 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-) -- 2.41.0
