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Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:10:00 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To:     Michael Brunner <Michael.Brunner@kontron.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: kempld-core: Check for DMI definition before ACPI
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:41:47PM +0000, Michael Brunner wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> thank you for the feedback! checkpatch didn't catch this.
> I sent v2 of the patch.
> 

It may have been "demoted" to --strict for whatever reason.

Guenter

> Best regards,
>   Michael
> 
> On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 06:39 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 11/9/20 11:46 PM, Michael Brunner wrote:
> > > Change the detection order to priorize DMI table entries over
> > > available
> > > ACPI entries.
> > > 
> > > This makes it more easy for product developers to patch product
> > > specific
> > > handling into the driver.
> > > Furthermore it allows to simplify the implementation a bit and
> > > especially to remove the need to force synchronous probing.
> > > 
> > > Based on the following commit introduced with v5.10-rc1:
> > > commit e8299c7313af ("mfd: Add ACPI support to Kontron PLD driver")
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Brunner <michael.brunner@kontron.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/mfd/kempld-core.c | 23 ++---------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/kempld-core.c b/drivers/mfd/kempld-core.c
> > > index 2c9295953c11..aa7f386646a1 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/mfd/kempld-core.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/mfd/kempld-core.c
> > > @@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ static const struct kempld_platform_data
> > > kempld_platform_data_generic = {
> > >  };
> > >  
> > >  static struct platform_device *kempld_pdev;
> > > -static bool kempld_acpi_mode;
> > >  
> > >  static int kempld_create_platform_device(const struct
> > > dmi_system_id *id)
> > >  {
> > > @@ -501,8 +500,6 @@ static int kempld_probe(struct platform_device
> > > *pdev)
> > >  		ret = kempld_get_acpi_data(pdev);
> > >  		if (ret)
> > >  			return ret;
> > > -
> > > -		kempld_acpi_mode = true;
> > >  	} else if (kempld_pdev != pdev) {
> > >  		/*
> > >  		 * The platform device we are probing is not the one we
> > > @@ -565,7 +562,6 @@ static struct platform_driver kempld_driver = {
> > >  	.driver		= {
> > >  		.name	= "kempld",
> > >  		.acpi_match_table = ACPI_PTR(kempld_acpi_table),
> > > -		.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS,
> > >  	},
> > >  	.probe		= kempld_probe,
> > >  	.remove		= kempld_remove,
> > > @@ -884,7 +880,6 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, kempld_dmi_table);
> > >  static int __init kempld_init(void)
> > >  {
> > >  	const struct dmi_system_id *id;
> > > -	int ret;
> > >  
> > >  	if (force_device_id[0]) {
> > >  		for (id = kempld_dmi_table;
> > > @@ -894,24 +889,10 @@ static int __init kempld_init(void)
> > >  					break;
> > >  		if (id->matches[0].slot == DMI_NONE)
> > >  			return -ENODEV;
> > > -	}
> > > -
> > > -	ret = platform_driver_register(&kempld_driver);
> > > -	if (ret)
> > > -		return ret;
> > > -
> > > -	/*
> > > -	 * With synchronous probing the device should already be probed
> > > now.
> > > -	 * If no device id is forced and also no ACPI definition for
> > > the
> > > -	 * device was found, scan DMI table as fallback.
> > > -	 *
> > > -	 * If drivers_autoprobing is disabled and the device is found
> > > here,
> > > -	 * only that device can be bound manually later.
> > > -	 */
> > > -	if (!kempld_pdev && !kempld_acpi_mode)
> > > +	} else
> > 
> > 	} else {
> > >  		dmi_check_system(kempld_dmi_table);
> > 	}
> > 
> > Guenter
> > 
> > >  
> > > -	return 0;
> > > +	return platform_driver_register(&kempld_driver);
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  static void __exit kempld_exit(void)
> > >