linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] IIO: st_sensors_i2c: improve device enumeration

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Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 19:14:01 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@...wensteinmedical.de>
Cc:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@...il.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@...aro.org>,
        "linux-iio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] IIO: st_sensors_i2c: improve device enumeration

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Nikolaus Voss
<nikolaus.voss@...wensteinmedical.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure I understand how ->probe_new() is supposed to work
>> against i2c_id_table, but I don't care for legacy platform data
>> anyway.
>>
>> What I would like to point to is device_get_match_data() API which
>> should simplify / unify the case how you get driver data.
>
>
> This driver doesn't need any driver data/ platform_data beyond the
> i2c_id_table name (which has already been matched when probe()/ probe_new()
> is called), so strictly neither of_match_table nor apci_match_table would be
> necessary, because i2c DT/ ACPI enumeration also matches against i2c_table
> names.

Looking at the code I see still calls to acpi_match_data() and of_match_data().
Instead nowadays better to use device_get_match_data().

i2c_id_table should be removed from the module device table at least
(though you may continue to use it internally in the driver).

That's my understanding how it should be done.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko