Re: [PATCH] of: match by compatible property first

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 03:28:40PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:

* Rob Herring wrote:

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On 04/20/2012 05:21 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:

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+const struct of_device_id *of_match_compat(const struct of_device_id *matches,
+					   const char *compat)
+{
+	while (matches->name[0] || matches->type[0] || matches->compatible[0]) {

You are not using name or type here, so you can remove.

They are still required so we don't stop early. A match table could well have
a first entry that has name and/or type set but not compatible, followed by a
second entry with only compatible set.

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 	while (matches->name[0] || matches->type[0] || matches->compatible[0]) {

You don't need to check compatible ptr here.

For similar reasons as above this check needs to stay in.

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 		int match = 1;
 		if (matches->name[0])

@@ -532,10 +558,7 @@ const struct of_device_id *of_match_node(const struct of_device_id *matches,
 		if (matches->type[0])
 			match &= node->type
 				&& !strcmp(matches->type, node->type);
-		if (matches->compatible[0])
-			match &= of_device_is_compatible(node,
-						matches->compatible);
-		if (match)
+		if (match && !matches->compatible[0])
 			return matches;
 		matches++;
 	}

diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
index bd52d83..23b5061 100644
--- a/include/linux/of.h
+++ b/include/linux/of.h

@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ extern const void *of_get_property(const struct device_node *node,
 
 extern int of_n_addr_cells(struct device_node *np);
 extern int of_n_size_cells(struct device_node *np);
+extern const struct of_device_id *of_match_compat(
+	const struct of_device_id *matches, const char *compat);

Why does this need to be a public function?

It doesn't. I just thought it might be handy to have. I can make it static if
you don't think it's useful generally.

Thierry

Rob,

Do you have further comments on this?

Thierry