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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 09:31:54 -0700
From: Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: silead_dmi - do not treat all devices
as i2c_clients
On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 07:08:28PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 04:45:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> >> <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
> >> > I2C bus has both i2c clients and adapter devices, so we must be careful in
> >> > notifier code and verify that we are actually dealing with an i2c client
> >> > before using it as such.
> >>
> >> > -static void silead_ts_dmi_add_props(struct device *dev)
> >> > +static void silead_ts_dmi_add_props(struct i2c_client *client)
> >> > {
> >>
> >> > - struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev);
> >>
> >> I would replace this by
> >> struct device *dev = &client->dev;
> >>
> >> Otherwise looks good for me.
> >
> > Andy, this series looks like a candidate for 4.11-fixes. We're already at rc5
> > though, so if we are going to do that, I'd like to see a stronger statement in
> > the commit log about how this issue manifests currently - if it does.
>
> It makes less changes for any (potentially) backported code.
> I'm not insisting and even can do myself.
Sorry, I was referring to the series itself, not your feedback above. You
assigned this to yourself in patchwork, so I was just noting that this patch
series may be a candidate for fixes to 4.11, rather than testing/for-next for
4.12. Your call.
--
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center
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