linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv5 5/8] i2c: Export i2c_match_id() for direct use by device drivers

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2016 01:02:52 -0400
From:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
To:	Kieran Bingham <kieran@...uared.org.uk>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	grant.likely@...aro.org, sameo@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 5/8] i2c: Export i2c_match_id() for direct use by device
 drivers

On 05/04/2016 11:14 AM, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> 
> When there was no other way to match a I2C device to driver i2c_match_id()
> was exclusively used.  However, now there are other types of tables which
> are commonly supplied, matching on an i2c_device_id table is used less
> frequently.  Instead of _always_ calling i2c_match_id() from within the
> framework, we only need to do so from drivers which have no other way of
> matching.  This patch makes i2c_match_id() available to the aforementioned
> device drivers.
> 
> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@...gham.xyz>
> Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@...gham.xyz>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
Tested-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America