On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 11:47:00PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> OF-style matching can be available to any device, on any type of bus.
> This patch allows any driver to provide an OF match table when CONFIG_OF
> is enabled so that drivers can be bound against devices described in
> the device tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> Hi Greg and Kay,
>
> Here is a potentially even more controversial RFC patch, the relevant
> chunk being the addition of an of-style match table to struct device_driver
> when CONFIG_OF is set. The idea being that OF style device binding is
> applicable on any bus, regardless of the bus type. Each bus' probe could
> be trivially extended to allow for an OF-style probe match.
>
> I've used a #ifdef in this version, but it doesn't have to be conditional
> if that would make for cleaner code. Either way, none of the core code
> would need to have and #ifdef bits.
>
> As with the previous patch, I want to get feedback before I proceed too
> far down this path.
I have no objection to this patch at all, it looks good to me.
Perhaps, in the future, you might be able to move the OF driver/device
binding into the driver core itself to make it easier in the end. But
for now, feel free to add:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
and send it off through your tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
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