On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 16:11, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:37:16AM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:49:18AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote: > > > On 2024/4/23 21:28, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:46:58AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote: > > ... > > > But let me throw an argument why this patch (or something similar) looks > > to be necessary. > > > > Both on DT and non-DT systems the kernel allows using the non-OF based > > matching. For the platform devices there is platform_device_id-based > > matching. > > > > Currently handling the data coming from such device_ids requires using > > special bits of code, e.g. platform_get_device_id(pdev)->driver_data to > > get the data from the platform_device_id. Having such codepaths goes > > against the goal of unifying DT and non-DT paths via generic property / > > fwnode code. > > > > As such, I support Sui's idea of being able to use device_get_match_data > > for non-DT, non-ACPI platform devices. > > I'm not sure I buy this. We have a special helpers based on the bus type to > combine device_get_match_data() with the respective ID table crawling, see > the SPI and I²C cases as the examples. I was thinking that we might be able to deprecate these helpers and always use device_get_match_data(). -- With best wishes Dmitry
