linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] eeprom: at24: don't assign the i2c ID table to at24

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:09:10 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Sven Van Asbroeck <svendev@...x.com>,
        linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] eeprom: at24: don't assign the i2c ID table to at24_driver

2018-04-11 11:56 GMT+02:00 Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>:
> On 2018-04-10 15:12, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> We switched to using probe_new(), so this is no longer used
>> by i2c core.
>
> It seems to be used in i2c_device_match() ???
>
> This could easily be me not understanding something...
>

Yes, but i2c core no longer uses the id_table field in struct
i2c_driver. We call i2c_device_match() ourselves instead of letting
i2c core do it and pass the driver data to probe().

Hope that helps,
Bartosz