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Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 11:53:49 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To:     Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de>
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        Srinath Mannam <srinath.mannam@broadcom.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ACPI: bus: match of_device_id using acpi device
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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