On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 02:53:42PM +0300, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote:
> When using devicetree spi_device.modalias is set to the compatible
> string with the vendor prefix removed. For SPI devices described via
> ACPI the i2c_board_info.type string is initialized by acpi_device_hid.
> When using ACPI and DT ids this string ends up something like "PRP0001".

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> Change acpi_register_spi_device to use the of_compatible property if
> present. This makes it easier to instantiate spi drivers through ACPI
> with DT ids.

This is basically fine but...

> +	if (adev->data.of_compatible) {
> +		ret = acpi_of_modalias(adev, spi->modalias, sizeof(spi->modalias));
> +		if (ret) {
> +			spi_dev_put(spi);
> +			return AE_NOT_FOUND;
> +		}

The only reason this could fail currently is that there wasn't a
compatible in the first place so why don't we just handle it like the no
compatible case?  It's probably not realistic but it seems like there's
a small chance this could regress some platform if we do add more error
detection in acpi_of_modalias().

I'm still not sure why if we want to translate ACPI into DT why we don't
actually translate and avoid all this special casing and churn.