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ptp: vmw: Convert to a platform driver
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:43:33 +0000 (12:43 +0100)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:06:19 +0000 (19:06 -0700)
commit6829f90906aaed1e4781742b96822031d5c2bd85
treedd2017621adafdde043799f59bdea723edf0eb88
parenteb9744e2c5d06e7007f47dd5853f7c50be189176
ptp: vmw: Convert to a platform driver

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 PTP VMware 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>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12883468.O9o76ZdvQC@rafael.j.wysocki
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/ptp/ptp_vmw.c