On Sat, 18 May 2019 18:44:34 -0300 Lucas Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Add a of_device_id struct and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE call, in order to add > device-tree support for this driver. > > Signed-off-by: Lucas Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Ribeiro <rodrigorsdc@xxxxxxxxx> > Co-developed-by: Rodrigo Ribeiro <rodrigorsdc@xxxxxxxxx> Hi Lucas, Rodrigo, The description isn't 100% accurate but it's close enough. Ever since devicetree was introduced, there has been a fallback mode for i2c and spi devices in which, in the absence of either a devicetree match table or an ACPI one, an attempt is made to match against the older i2c_device_id table entries. So it'll 'work' for devicetree bindings without this patch, but by a less controlled route and one that doesn't allow for the possibility of multiple manufacturers using the same part number. Hence these are good changes to make. Simplifying the description to enabling devicetree probing is fine though. Under drivers/spi.c, devices probed via a device tree binding use: of_register_spi_device (applied to all children of an spi bus, so the slave devices). This calls of_modalias_node which performs a copy of the compatible without the manufacturer ID into the modalias field. Later, spi_match_device is called, which first attempts of_driver_match_device which I think does the precise match. If that fails, it tries ACPI, and failing that it falls back to matching the modalias against the id_table entries. Thus it can still work without these entries but they do make it simpler and more consistent. Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for the autobuilders to play with it. Thanks, Jonathan > --- > drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16240.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16240.c b/drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16240.c > index b80e0d248b0f..8c6d23604eca 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16240.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16240.c > @@ -435,6 +435,12 @@ static int adis16240_remove(struct spi_device *spi) > return 0; > } > > +static const struct of_device_id adis16240_of_match[] = { > + { .compatible = "adi,adis16240" }, > + { }, > +}; > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, adis16240_of_match); > + > static struct spi_driver adis16240_driver = { > .driver = { > .name = "adis16240", _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel