Re: [V3 PATCH 1/2] ACPI / scan: Add support for ACPI _CLS device matching

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On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:02:43AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, February 09, 2015 12:20:03 AM Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
> > Device drivers typically use ACPI _HIDs/_CIDs listed in struct device_driver
> > acpi_match_table to match devices. However, for generic drivers, we do
> > not want to list _HID for all supported devices, and some device classes
> > do not have _CID (e.g. SATA, USB). Instead, we can leverage ACPI _CLS,
> > which specifies PCI-defined class code (i.e. base-class, subclass and
> > programming interface).
> > 
> > This patch adds support for matching ACPI devices using the _CLS method.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Greg, Mika, any problems with this?

Is there some specific reason why this cannot be done in similar way
than PCI already does?

In other words, stuff _CLS fields to struct acpi_device_id and make
match functions match against those if they are != 0.
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