linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: consider devices with of_match

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Message-ID: <20200826141810.GE8849@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 23:18:10 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: consider devices with of_match_table during i2c
 device probing

On (20/08/26 13:23), Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 01:54:26PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 07:38:07PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > On (20/08/26 19:24), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > > > But then the question is why we have this code in the ->probe() at all?
> > > > > ->match() is run before probe by bus core, no?
> > > > 
> > > > That's a good question.
> > > 
> > > Everything seem to be working OK on my test board with this patch:
> > 
> > I'm okay with it, but I want to hear Wolfram about this.
> > If it gets a green light to go, feel free to add
> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Sergey,
> 
> Can you send a proper patch (with patch description) and me and Jean
> Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de> in the To: field?
> 
> The origins of this matching code are pretty old and Jean is more
> experienced there than I am. Nonetheless, I will check it, too, of
> course.

Oh, sure, will do. Is that OK if I'll base my patch on linux-next?
I'm also going to test the patch on more devices here on my side.

	-ss