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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: When does of_match_device() return NULL ?
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> > 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