Hi Fabio, > > > Thanks for your reply. > > I guess you mean the of_match_table will not be NULL since it contains > compatible, right? > > But for the lpuart data -- struct lpuart_soc_data, won’t it meet the NULL > case? such as { .compatible = "fsl,imx8qxp-lpuart", }. > > Here of_device_id won’t be NULL, but lpuart_soc_data Is NULL. > > In linux-next we have: > > static const struct of_device_id lpuart_dt_ids[] = { { .compatible = "fsl,vf610- > lpuart", .data = &vf_data, }, { .compatible = "fsl,ls1021a-lpuart", .data = > &ls1021a_data, }, { .compatible = "fsl,ls1028a-lpuart", .data = > &ls1028a_data, }, { .compatible = "fsl,imx7ulp-lpuart", .data = > &imx7ulp_data, }, { .compatible = "fsl,imx8qxp-lpuart", .data = > &imx8qxp_data, }, { /* sentinel */ } }; > > All compatible entries have a .data field populated. > > How sdata can be NULL? You are right, seems it is impossible for us to hit this NULL. Will drop this patch. Best regards Sherry