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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/ [1] 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>