[PATCH v3 1/7] acpi: Add early device probing infrastructure

[Hanjun Guo]

On 09/28/2015 10:49 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> IRQ controllers and timers are the two types of device the kernel
> requires before being able to use the device driver model.
>
> ACPI so far lacks a proper probing infrastructure similar to the one
> we have with DT, where we're able to declare IRQ chips and
> clocksources inside the driver code, and let the core code pick it up
> and call us back on a match. This leads to all kind of really ugly
> hacks all over the arm64 code and even in the ACPI layer.
>
> In order to allow some basic probing based on the ACPI tables,
> introduce "struct acpi_probe_entry" which contains just enough
> data and callbacks to match a table, an optional subtable, and
> call a probe function. A driver can, at build time, register itself
> and expect being called if the right entry exists in the ACPI
> table.
>
> A acpi_probe_device_table() is provided, taking an identifier for
> a set of acpi_prove_entries, and iterating over the registered
> entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo at linaro.org>

Thanks
Hanjun