On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 08:22:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 06:16:28PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 08:07:51PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > Drop rather useless use of ACPI_PTR() and of_match_ptr(). > > > It also removes the necessity to be dependent on ACPI and > > > of.h inclusion. > > I think the ACPI dependency there is as much about hiding the device on > > irrelevant platforms as anything else, might be better replaced with an > > x86 dependency though. > The whole idea behind ACPI_PTR() (which seems following the of_match_ptr() > implementation) looks premature. Now we have a lot of patches from DT people to > remove of_match_ptr(), i.o.w. make the ID visible even on non-OF platforms. > Having the list of supported IDs is not bad thing anyway as it might help > to google for a device elsewhere, for example. That's nice but I'm not sure what that has to do with the dependency on ACPI?
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