On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 07:42:09PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 05:25:15PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > That's true currently since you're matching based on ACPI ID and then > > have the lookup done with the ID information in the acpi_device_id table > > but IIRC the patch was replacing that with some device property stuff. > But that one also based on the IDs, it's not assigned without real IDs of > the devices on the certain platforms. I don't see how it's different in > this sense. The driver won't even match and therefore load if it doesn't have a lookup for the device with the current code, the type code comes from the match. If it has to go querying a device property then the driver can load but end up with a device property it hasn't ever heard of and end up misbehaving as a result.
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