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platform/chrome: Convert ChromeOS privacy-screen driver to platform
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 5 Mar 2026 19:37:54 +0000 (20:37 +0100)
committerTzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
Fri, 6 Mar 2026 04:35:07 +0000 (04:35 +0000)
commitd3c2872ae323ea45cc32ea0247f26c2189a481cb
tree8ba40436c00417cb7b7cab21c9f71e70942d9979
parent286386820d524a76647b8a1de9e4122270da6975
platform/chrome: Convert ChromeOS privacy-screen driver to platform

In all cases in which a struct acpi_driver is used for binding a driver
to an ACPI device object, a corresponding platform device is created by
the ACPI core and that device is regarded as a proper representation of
underlying hardware.  Accordingly, a struct platform_driver should be
used by driver code to bind to that device.  There are multiple reasons
why drivers should not bind directly to ACPI device objects [1].

Overall, it is better to bind drivers to platform devices than to their
ACPI companions, so convert the ChromeOS privacy-screen ACPI driver
to a platform one.

While this is not expected to alter functionality, it changes sysfs
layout and so it will be visible to user space.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2396510.ElGaqSPkdT@rafael.j.wysocki/
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1963835.tdWV9SEqCh@rafael.j.wysocki
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
drivers/platform/chrome/chromeos_privacy_screen.c