Re: [PATCH 4/5] usb: typec: port-mapper: Convert to the component framework

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 05:37:56PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Instead of trying to keep track of the connections to the
> USB Type-C connectors separately, letting the component
> framework take care of that.
> 
> From now on every USB Type-C connector will register itself
> as "aggregate" - component master - and anything that can be
> connected to it can then simply register itself as a generic
> component.
> 
> The matching of the components and the connector shall rely
> on ACPI _PLD initially. Before registering itself as the
> aggregate, the connector will check the list of other
> devices that share the same ACPI _PLD with it, and add a
> component match entry for each one of them. Because only
> ACPI is supported for now, the driver shall only be build
> when ACPI is supported.
> 
> This removes the need for the custom API that the driver
> exposed. The components and the connector can therefore
> exist completely independently of each other. The order in
> which they are registered, as well as are they modules or
> not, is now irrelevant.

...

> +static int typec_port_compare(struct device *dev, void *fwnode)
>  {

> +	return dev_fwnode(dev) == fwnode;
>  }

NIH device_match_fwnode()

...

> +	/* Component match for every device that shares the same _PLD. */
> +	list_for_each_entry(adev, &location->devices, location_list) {

> +		if (adev == ACPI_COMPANION(&con->dev))

	device_match_acpi_dev()

> +			continue;

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko