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)