linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 03/16] ARM: dts: efm32: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM

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Message-ID: <CABxcv=nqWgpGaypYn8JMSfjOP8zbRPKOM2Ye-6zRwNhcH0hKcw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:21:11 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>
To:     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 03/16] ARM: dts: efm32: Add generic compatible
 string for I2C EEPROM

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@...hile0.org> 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>
>

Any comment on this?

Wolfram, maybe you can ack the pending DTS patches so I can post them
to the arm-soc maintainers directly for they to pick them?

Best regards,
Javier