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Message-ID: <bc87437c-c53e-b6f6-e9b1-2d488639317b@axentia.se>
Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:55:43 +0100
From:   Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran@...uared.org.uk>
CC:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
        <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 08/11] i2c: match vendorless strings on the internal
 string length

On 2016-10-26 10:53, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> 
>> If a user provides a shortened string to match a device to the sysfs i2c
>> interface it will match on the first string that contains that string
>> prefix.
>>
>> for example:
>>   echo a 0x68 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device
>>
>> will match as3711, as3722, and ak8975 incorrectly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@...gham.xyz>
> 
> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
>   
>> ---
>>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>> index 01bce56f733a..50c9cfdb87b7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>> @@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ i2c_of_match_device_strip_vendor(const struct of_device_id *matches,
>>  		else
>>  			name++;
>>  
>> -		if (!strncasecmp(client->name, name, strlen(client->name)))
>> +		if (!strncasecmp(client->name, name, strlen(name)))
>>  			return matches;
>>  	}
>>  
> 

Is that really so much better?

With this patch
	echo as3711CRAP 0x68 > /sys/...
will match as3711.

What if there is some as37112 driver that is the real target?

Cheers,
Peter

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