linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 03/20] ARM: dts: omap: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM

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Message-ID: <20170526155108.GF3717@atomide.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 May 2017 08:51:09 -0700
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Benoît Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Mark Jackson <mpfj@...flow.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/20] ARM: dts: omap: Add generic compatible string
 for I2C EEPROM

* Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org> [170523 06:38]:
> 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.

Picking this patch into omap-for-v4.13/dt thanks.

Tony