On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 1:46 PM Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:12:43 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 3:54 PM Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote: ... > Now I'm curious, is there a well-defined subset of device names that > can be found in an ACPI table? If not, does that mean that any driver > with an OF entry could match, Yes, anything can be matched by ACPI with any of the compatible strings. > therefore of_match_ptr() should be > removed from the kernel entirely? In most cases yes, like for discrete components that can be connected to any SoC on ACPI/DT/whatever platform. But for some cases it still makes sense: platform is known to never be non-OF, component is known to be used only on such platforms, etc. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
