On (20/08/26 12:56), Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > You probably meant simply: > > > > if (!i2c_device_match(dev, dev->driver)) { > > > > > status = -ENODEV; > > > goto put_sync_adapter; > > > } > > > > On the first glance it will work the same way but slightly longer in case of ID > > table matching. > > > > Send a patch! > > 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. There is also one more .id_table traversal done right before ->probe() call: driver->probe(client, i2c_match_id(driver->id_table, client)) So in the worst case we can end up doing 3 .id_table lookups. -ss