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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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