On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:38:30PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > >From 72df5d1f51fb27a4ba7f70a3b07df759d32b8288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:11:55 +0800 > Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/6] Introduce acpi_match_device_id(). > > This API is used to check if a device id string is compatible > with an ACPI device, > either PNP id exported via _HID or compatible ids exported > via _CID control method. > > Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/acpi/scan.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/acpi/acpi_bus.h | 6 ++++++ > 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c > index d1ecca2..936a7c9 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c > +++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c > @@ -312,6 +312,28 @@ int acpi_match_device_ids(struct acpi_device *device, > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_match_device_ids); > > +int acpi_match_device_id(const struct device *dev, const char *id) Would be good idea to implement this in terms of of_match_device() so that it returns pointer to the matched id. This way drivers can get the ->driver_data pretty easily if needed. > +{ > + acpi_handle handle = DEVICE_ACPI_HANDLE(dev); If the device is not bound to an ACPI handle this will return NULL. And I don't see you doing that in this series meaning that.. > + struct acpi_device *device; > + struct acpi_hardware_id *hwid; > + acpi_status status; > + > + if (!handle || !id) > + return -ENODEV; ..you always return -ENODEV here, right? > + > + status = acpi_bus_get_device(handle, &device); > + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) > + return -ENODEV; > + > + list_for_each_entry(hwid, &device->pnp.ids, list) > + if (!strcmp(id, hwid->id)) > + return 0; > + > + return -ENODEV; > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_match_device_id);