drivercore: Add of_match_table to the common device drivers
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From: Greg KH on 7 Mar 2010 13:10 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 <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> > --- > > 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 <gregkh(a)suse.de> and send it off through your tree. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |