Hi,
On 7/6/23 11:19, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 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").
Ah interesting, it does indeed look a lot like your version.
but it was developed independently.
Unfortunately it seems that this is headed for 6.6-rc1 and the atomisp
changes in this series which rely on this are intended for 6.6-rc1 too.
So we still need to figure out how to merge this.
Regards,
Hans
