On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 08:17:43PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:14:24PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 08:49:36PM +0100, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
>
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> > > +static struct of_device_id isl12057_dt_match[] = {
> > > + { .compatible = "isl,isl12057" },
> > > + { },
> > > +};
> > > +#endif
>
> > Is this needed ? For i2c devices, struct i2c_device_id should be sufficient.
>
> It is required, it's bad practice to omit the vendor specifier.
> Different vendors can and do use the same prefix in their device names
> leading to collisions - for example both Wondermedia and Wolfson use wm.
> Linux happens to accept unprefixed names but that doesn't mean it's a
> good idea.
Ok, I'll keep that in mind.
Thanks,
Guenter
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