On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 03:28:40PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> * Rob Herring wrote:
> > On 04/20/2012 05:21 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> [...]
> > > +const struct of_device_id *of_match_compat(const struct of_device_id *matches,
> > > +					   const char *compat)
> > > +{
> > > +	while (matches->name[0] || matches->type[0] || matches->compatible[0]) {
> > 
> > You are not using name or type here, so you can remove.
> 
> They are still required so we don't stop early. A match table could well have
> a first entry that has name and/or type set but not compatible, followed by a
> second entry with only compatible set.
> 
> > >  	while (matches->name[0] || matches->type[0] || matches->compatible[0]) {
> > 
> > You don't need to check compatible ptr here.
> 
> For similar reasons as above this check needs to stay in.
> 
> > 
> > >  		int match = 1;
> > >  		if (matches->name[0])
> > > @@ -532,10 +558,7 @@ const struct of_device_id *of_match_node(const struct of_device_id *matches,
> > >  		if (matches->type[0])
> > >  			match &= node->type
> > >  				&& !strcmp(matches->type, node->type);
> > > -		if (matches->compatible[0])
> > > -			match &= of_device_is_compatible(node,
> > > -						matches->compatible);
> > > -		if (match)
> > > +		if (match && !matches->compatible[0])
> > >  			return matches;
> > >  		matches++;
> > >  	}
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
> > > index bd52d83..23b5061 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/of.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/of.h
> > > @@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ extern const void *of_get_property(const struct device_node *node,
> > >  
> > >  extern int of_n_addr_cells(struct device_node *np);
> > >  extern int of_n_size_cells(struct device_node *np);
> > > +extern const struct of_device_id *of_match_compat(
> > > +	const struct of_device_id *matches, const char *compat);
> > 
> > Why does this need to be a public function?
> 
> It doesn't. I just thought it might be handy to have. I can make it static if
> you don't think it's useful generally.
> 
> Thierry

Rob,

Do you have further comments on this?

Thierry