Re: [PATCH v2 09/28] drivers: Add generic match helper by ACPI_COMPANION device

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jun 18 2019 - 04:46:00 EST


On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:38 AM Suzuki K Poulose
<suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On 17/06/2019 23:07, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:55 PM Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Add a generic helper to match a device by the ACPI_COMPANION device.
> >> This will be later used for providing wrappers for
> >> (bus/class/driver)_find_device().
> >>
> >> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Cc: linux-spi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Please fold this change into the patch adding users of device_match_acpi_dev().
>
> There are variants of this by class/bus/driver and all of them are introduced
> as separate patches with the respective users. If we do for this, we have to
> do the same for other matches as well.
>
> i.e, [ device_match_by_attr + class_find_device_by_attr & users +
> driver_find_device_by_attr & users + bus_find_device_by_attr & users ]
>
> And that becomes a large chunk, which could make the review painful.
>
> If you would still like that approach, I could do that in the next revision.

Yes, please.