On 12/16/2013 05:12 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt > This is a list of trivial i2c devices that have simple device tree > bindings, consisting only of a compatible field, an address and > -possibly an interrupt line. > +possibly an interrupt line. The compatible field is used to lookup the > +modalias of the driver which will handle the device. The compatible > +string may begin with a manufacturer prefix (separated from the > +modalias by a comma) which will be stripped off during lookup. This part of the patch described Linux-specific behaviour, whereas DT bindings should be OS-agnostic. BTW, you didn't CC the DT binding maintainers. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
