1 files changed, 1 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c
index 10b51106c854..ba195fbce4c6 100644
--- a/drivers/of/base.c
+++ b/drivers/of/base.c
@@ -730,49 +730,13 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_node_with_property);
 
-static const struct of_device_id *
-of_match_compatible(const struct of_device_id *matches,
-			const struct device_node *node)
-{
-	const char *cp;
-	int cplen, l;
-	const struct of_device_id *m;
-
-	cp = __of_get_property(node, "compatible", &cplen);
-	while (cp && (cplen > 0)) {
-		m = matches;
-		while (m->name[0] || m->type[0] || m->compatible[0]) {
-			/* Only match for the entries without type and name */
-			if (m->name[0] || m->type[0] ||
-				of_compat_cmp(m->compatible, cp,
-					 strlen(m->compatible)))
-				m++;
-			else
-				return m;
-		}
-
-		/* Get node's next compatible string */
-		l = strlen(cp) + 1;
-		cp += l;
-		cplen -= l;
-	}
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 static
 const struct of_device_id *__of_match_node(const struct of_device_id *matches,
 					   const struct device_node *node)
 {
-	const struct of_device_id *m;
-
 	if (!matches)
 		return NULL;
 
-	m = of_match_compatible(matches, node);
-	if (m)
-		return m;
-
 	while (matches->name[0] || matches->type[0] || matches->compatible[0]) {
 		int match = 1;
 		if (matches->name[0])
@@ -796,12 +760,7 @@ const struct of_device_id *__of_match_node(const struct of_device_id *matches,
  *	@matches:	array of of device match structures to search in
  *	@node:		the of device structure to match against
  *
- *	Low level utility function used by device matching. We have two ways
- *	of matching:
- *	- Try to find the best compatible match by comparing each compatible
- *	  string of device node with all the given matches respectively.
- *	- If the above method failed, then try to match the compatible by using
- *	  __of_device_is_compatible() besides the match in type and name.
+ *	Low level utility function used by device matching.
  */
 const struct of_device_id *of_match_node(const struct of_device_id *matches,
 					 const struct device_node *node)