Re: [RFC PATCH 02/15] dt: add a match table pointer to struct device
From: Rob Herring <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-23 18:29:08
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Grant, On 02/22/2011 10:33 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
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Add a new .of_match field to struct device which points at the matching device driver .of_match_table entry when a device is probed via the device tree Signed-off-by: Grant Likely<redacted> --- include/linux/device.h | 1 + include/linux/of_device.h | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index ca5d252..8d8e267 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ struct device { struct dev_archdata archdata; struct device_node *of_node; /* associated device tree node */ + const struct of_device_id *of_match; /* matching of_device_id from driver */
Couldn't of_match/of_match_table be merged into the platform dev/drv id_entry/id_table. Handling MODALIAS for a driver that does both OF style and normal platform device matching may be a problem though. Rob