On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Nikolaus Voss wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Sudeep Holla wrote: > >
[...] > >+1 on NACK for this and anything else that abuse PRP0001 as a short cut > >approach. > > This is no abuse but exactly what PRP0001 is meant for. The basic idea of > PRP0001 is to reuse DT "compatible" strings in ACPI namespace, see > Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt. Reusing also means getting access to the > of_device_id. > Sorry for not being descriptive. It has been discussed a lot in past and I assume someone would had gone through them, so gave no information in my response. > Allocating an ACPI id for an already existing DT driver is redundant, isn't > it? > I think Andy had provided the summary and the intentions. Rafael has also confirmed, I have nothing else to add. -- Regards, Sudeep
