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Message-ID: <20170525182902.irlm5zbgmbsosvq4@pengutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 20:29:02 +0200
From: Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
Uwe Kleine-König <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/20] ARM: dts: efm32: Add generic compatible string
for I2C EEPROM
Hello,
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:34:33PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The at24 driver allows to register I2C EEPROM chips using different vendor
> and devices, but the I2C subsystem does not take the vendor into account
> when matching using the I2C table since it only has device entries.
>
> But when matching using an OF table, both the vendor and device has to be
> taken into account so the driver defines only a set of compatible strings
> using the "atmel" vendor as a generic fallback for compatible I2C devices.
>
> So add this generic fallback to the device node compatible string to make
> the device to match the driver using the OF device ID table.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>
Assuming the of-table patch is accepted this can have my:
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Otherwise I'm not convinced this is worth the churn.
Thanks
Uwe
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