Re: [PATCH 01/38] ASoC: ak5558: drop of_match_ptr from of_device_id table

Mark Brown
2020-11-23T12:38:08Z

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:48:32PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:59:20AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 08:04:29PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > Surely if that's the desired outcome the fix is to change the definition
> > > of of_match_ptr() such that it leaves the reference with CONFIG_ACPI,
> > > perhaps hidden behind a config option for PRP0001? That seems better
> > > than going through the entire tree like this.

> > That could be indeed an easier way to achieve this.

> ...easier and wrong in my opinion. Not all drivers need that.
> What the point to touch it in the driver which is OF-only?
> (For IP which will quite unlikely to be present in ACPI world)
> Or if the device will get the correct ACPI ID?

That feels like something that should be done with Kconfig dependencies
like a direct OF dependency (possibly a !PRP0001 dependency?) for the
driver or possibly with having a variant of_match_ptr() for things that
really don't want to support PRP0001. Just removing all the use of
of_match_ptr() is both noisy and confusing in that it looks like it's
creating issues to fix, it makes it hard to understand when and why one
should use the macro.

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