On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 11:30:07PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Some ACPI glue code (1) may want to do an acpi_device_id match while
> it only has a struct acpi_device available because the first physical
> node may not have been instantiated yet.
>
> Add a new acpi_match_acpi_device() helper for this, which takes
> a "struct acpi_device *" as argument rather then the "struct device *"
> which acpi_match_device() takes.
>
> 1) E.g. code which parses ACPI tables to transforms them
> into more standard kernel data structures like fwnodes
Looks like it's v1 of my original patch, anyway this is now in Linux Next as
2b5ae9604949 ("ACPI: bus: Introduce acpi_match_acpi_device() helper").
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
