diff --git a/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c b/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
index 6be58eb5a746..7aa32b90cf1e 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c
@@ -88,7 +88,17 @@ static void mfd_acpi_add_device(const struct mfd_cell *cell,
 		}
 	}
 
-	device_set_node(&pdev->dev, acpi_fwnode_handle(adev ?: parent));
+	/*
+	 * NOTE: The fwnode design doesn't allow proper stacking/sharing. This
+	 * should eventually turn into a device fwnode API call that will allow
+	 * prepending to a list of fwnodes (with ACPI taking precedence).
+	 *
+	 * set_primary_fwnode() is used here, instead of device_set_node(), as
+	 * device_set_node() will overwrite the existing fwnode, which may be an
+	 * OF node that was populated earlier. To support a use case where ACPI
+	 * and OF is used in conjunction, we call set_primary_fwnode() instead.
+	 */
+	set_primary_fwnode(&pdev->dev, acpi_fwnode_handle(adev ?: parent));
 }
 #else
 static inline void mfd_acpi_add_device(const struct mfd_cell *cell,