[PATCH v2 0/4] dma: use designated initializers for acpi_device_id

Pawel Zalewski pzalewski at thegoodpenguin.co.uk
Mon Sep 7 08:17:42 PDT 2026


This series is converting lists that contain the acpi_device_id struct,
which is defined in the include/linux/device-id/acpi.h to make use of named
initializers (which they do not use currently). This work is part of the on
going effort in the kernel associated with device-ids [1]

The plan is to convert acpi_device_id::driver_data to have an anonymous
union, similarly to what was introduced for PCI and I2C device ID tables.
The goal is to increase type-safety (most of the existing casts are gone),
to improve readability and to make use intent a bit more clear:

```
union {
	kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
	const void *driver_data_ptr;
}
```

But for that to work all lists containing the structs need to use named
initializers first to avoid triggering -Wmissing-braces. I already have
patches that implement this and touching a lot of kernel subsystmes that
use the acpi_device_id struct and that list keeps on growing. Therefore, 
I have decided to split the series per every subsystem into:
- pre-clean-ups that convert the lists to use named initializers
  (which is this series)
- actual implementations that make some of the modules use the new 
  driver_data_ptr member

That way the task can be fragmented into manageable and independent chunks
of work and makes this effort easier to review.

Tested builds on x86-64 and a64 in Yocto using 7.3-rc2.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1780048925.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/

Signed-off-by: Pawel Zalewski <pzalewski at thegoodpenguin.co.uk>
---
Changes in v2:
- Tidy up messages and wrapped at 75 chars; added Reviewed-bys from V1.
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904-acpi-dma-v1-0-0fcc63d65d4b@thegoodpenguin.co.uk

To: Viresh Kumar <vireshk at kernel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
To: Vinod Koul <vkoul at kernel.org>
To: Frank Li <Frank.Li at kernel.org>
To: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin at loongson.cn>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya at kernel.org>
Cc: dmaengine at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arm-msm at vger.kernel.org

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Pawel Zalewski (4):
      dma: dw: use designated initializers for acpi_device_id
      dma: loongson:  use named initializers for acpi_device_id
      dma: qcom: use named initializers for acpi_device_id
      dma: xgene-dmac: use named initializers for acpi_device_id

 drivers/dma/dw/platform.c                    | 12 ++++++------
 drivers/dma/loongson/loongson2-apb-cmc-dma.c |  4 ++--
 drivers/dma/qcom/hidma.c                     |  8 ++++----
 drivers/dma/xgene-dma.c                      |  4 ++--
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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base-commit: df2908090cda368b01ff43709f51890076c56157
change-id: 20260904-acpi-dma-ee1add4bae4e

Best regards,
--  
Pawel Zalewski <pzalewski at thegoodpenguin.co.uk>




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