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From:   Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:49:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] Qcom: LLCC/EDAC: Fix base address used for LLCC banks
To:     Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 16:17, Manivannan Sadhasivam
<manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 03:11:36PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 19/12/2022 14:50, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > >
> > >>> Also, the id table is
> > >>> an overkill since there is only one driver that is making use of it. And
> > >>> moreover, there is no definite ID to use.
> > >>
> > >> Every driver with a single device support has usually ID table and it's
> > >> not a problem...
> > >>
> > >
> > > Are you referring to OF/ACPI ID table? Or something else?
> >
> > No, I refer to the driver ID table (I2C, platform whatever the driver is).
> >
>
> Yeah, that's what I wanted to avoid here. The ID table makes sense if you have
> a bus like I2C or a separate subsystem but here LLCC is an individual driver.
> So creating a separate ID table is an overkill IMO.

Well, struct platform_device_id is used quite a lot together with the
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, _ids);

On the other hand:

$ git grep MODULE_ALIAS.*platform: | wc -l
1308
$ git grep MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.*platform | wc -l
236

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry