Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] device property: Introduce device_is_compatible()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Jun 16 2023 - 13:55:34 EST


On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 6:12 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Introduce a new helper to tell if device (node) is compatible to the
> given string value. This will help some drivers to get rid of unneeded
> OF APIs/etc and in may help others to be agnostic to OF/ACPI.
>
> While doing it, I have noticed that ACPI_DEVICE_CLASS() macro seems
> defined in unsuitable location. Move it to the better one.
>
> Last patch is an example of what the first two are doing.
>
> The entire series can go, I believe, via ACPI (linux-pm) tree in case
> the last patch gets tag from the respective maintainer.
>
> In v3:
> - added tag to patch 1 (Rafael), patches 2&3 (Sakari)
> - made commit message text wider in patch 3 (Sakari)
>
> In v2:
> - updated commit message and added kernel doc for a new API (Greg)
> - also replaced acpi_device_get_match_data() with the agnostic API
> - tried to keep header inclusions ordered (to some extent)
>
> Andy Shevchenko (3):
> ACPI: Move ACPI_DEVICE_CLASS() to mod_devicetable.h
> device property: Implement device_is_compatible()
> ata: ahci_platform: Make code agnostic to OF/ACPI
>
> drivers/ata/ahci_platform.c | 8 ++++----
> include/linux/acpi.h | 14 --------------
> include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 13 +++++++++++++
> include/linux/property.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> --

All applied as 6.5 material, thanks!