linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver: misc: bmp085: remove "of_match

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Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:43:44 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@...com>,
	arnd@...db.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver: misc: bmp085: remove "of_match_table" property.

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:42:14PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 12:30:34PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 02:58:44PM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
> > > There is an automatic binding done for I2C devices in the of_i2c core
> > > code. So, DT will be able to bind to any I2C device using the
> > > already existing table: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, bmp085_id).
> 
> > Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
> 
> It's good practice to have an explict compatible string even if the
> default happens to work in order to avoid any name clashes.

of_i2c.c makes no use whatsoever of the compatible string. See that it
will build an i2c_boardinfo and register a new device. That compatible
string is just churn and has no use at all.

-- 
balbi

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