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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: When does of_match_device() return NULL ?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 15:50:48 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1805101550240.2589@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_JsqJ=CZOgJi048rbeJagynGpd=eM+Yu8-ntyihrYwTWEX0Q@mail.gmail.com>

> > Is there any way that one can
> > infer from the presence or absence of either kind of declaration that
> > there is only one way to cause the probe function to be invoked?
>
> I think the short answer is no.
>
> DT requires an of_match_table. ACPI requires an acpi_match_table
> (IIRC). PCI/USB use VID/PID. Then you have old style platform device
> and driver .name matching. And then there's manually binding.

Thanks for all of the clarifications!

julia

      reply	other threads:[~2018-05-10 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-09 14:41 When does of_match_device() return NULL ? Himanshu Jha
2018-05-09 21:27 ` Rob Herring
2018-05-10  5:42   ` Julia Lawall
2018-05-10 13:30     ` Rob Herring
2018-05-10 13:50       ` Julia Lawall [this message]

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