Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: bus.c: Let acpi_device_get_match_data() return DT compatibility data

[Nikolaus Voss]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Nikolaus Voss <nv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When using ACPI with ACPI_DT_NAMESPACE_HID/ PRP0001 HID and referring to
> > of_device_id table "compatible" strings in DSD, a pointer to the
> > corresponding DT table entry should be returned instead of a null
> > pointer. An acpi_device_id match still takes precedence.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> with a caveat that this is only an improvement for a _temporary_
> PRP0001 users like I2C or SPI slave devices.
> Please, don't consider this change as a valid point to (ab)use PRP0001
> in a cases where devices are not "hotpluggable".

Will add the caveat and resend. Andy, thanks for reviewing!

Niko