[+cc Greg, Peter, Tony since they acked the original patch [1]] On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mika Westerberg <mika.westerb...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:32:25PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> Struct device_driver is a generic structure, so it seems strange to >> have to include non-generic things like of_device_id and now >> acpi_match_table there. > > Yes, but in a sense the DT and ACPI are "generic". So that they are used to > describe the configuration of a machine.
What I meant by "generic" was "useful across all architectures." The new acpi_match_table and acpi_handle fields [1] are not generic in that sense because they're present on all architectures but used only on x86 and ia64. The existing of_match_table and of_node are similarly unused on many architectures. This doesn't seem like a scalable strategy to me. Are we going to add a pnpbios_node for x86 PNPBIOS machines without ACPI, a pdc_hpa for parisc machines with PDC, etc.? [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1677221/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
