linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] iio: adc: max9611: fix module auto-loading

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Message-ID: <CABxcv=kmnithguOYV03KASM2DF09yiRs7FPvnBM3fX=k9+soQw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:01:07 +0100
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dmitry Mastykin <mastichi@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Jacopo Mondi <jacopo+renesas@...ndi.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        linux-iio <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iio: adc: max9611: fix module auto-loading

Hello Jonathan,

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org> wrote:

[snip]

>
> I may well be missing some subtle detail of course having spent only a few
> minute looking at this!
>

Your understanding is correct. This change has nothing to do with
module autoloading.

The .probe_new callback is only used to avoid requiring an I2C device
ID table since the old .probe callback has a struct i2c_device_id as a
parameter and so requires a table even in OF (or ACPI) only drivers.

> Jonathan

Best regards,
Javier