linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 05/20] ARM: dts: efm32: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM

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Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 22:17:40 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/20] ARM: dts: efm32: Add generic compatible string
 for I2C EEPROM

Hello Uwe,

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:34:33PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> The at24 driver allows to register I2C EEPROM chips using different vendor
>> and devices, but the I2C subsystem does not take the vendor into account
>> when matching using the I2C table since it only has device entries.
>>
>> But when matching using an OF table, both the vendor and device has to be
>> taken into account so the driver defines only a set of compatible strings
>> using the "atmel" vendor as a generic fallback for compatible I2C devices.
>>
>> So add this generic fallback to the device node compatible string to make
>> the device to match the driver using the OF device ID table.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>
>
> Assuming the of-table patch is accepted this can have my:
>
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
>

Thanks a lot for the Ack.

> Otherwise I'm not convinced this is worth the churn.
>

Both changes are needed in order to make sure that the driver and DTS
won't regress when the I2C core is modified to report a proper
MODALIAS for I2C devices registered via OF.

> Thanks
> Uwe
>

Best regards,
Javier