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Rafael J. Wysocki 27d58498f6 platform/chrome: wilco_ec: event: 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 ChromeOS Wilco Embedded Controller event
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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9600287.CDJkKcVGEf@rafael.j.wysocki
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
2026-03-06 04:35:07 +00:00
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