On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 16:52:23 +0100, Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Wolfram, > > As previously discussed I believe it should be okay for an I2C device > driver _not_ supply an I2C ID table to match to. The I2C subsystem > should be able to match via other means, such as via OF tables. The > blocking factor during our previous conversation was to keep > registering via sysfs up and running. This set does that. > > After thinking more deeply about the problem, it occurred to me that > any I2C device driver which uses the sysfs method and issues an > of_match_device() would also fail their probe(). Bolted on to this > set is a new, more generic way for these devices to match against > either of the I2C/OF tables. > > I hope this ticks all of your boxes. > > v2: > - Removal of ACPI support (this is really an OF issue). > - Add a new .probe2( with will seamlessly replace > - Supply a warning on devices matching via OF without a suitable compatible > - Remove unified match_device() - bad idea as it subverts type-safe behaviour > - Provide examples of the kind of clean-up possible after this set. > - I already have the full support from the maintainer of these drivers =;-) Aside from patch 7/9 and the comment I made about struct device vs. struct i2c_client in the API, I think this series looks good. You can add my acks to 1-6 and 8-9. Number 7 is nacked. Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> g. > > Kind regards, > Lee > > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c | 5 ++--- > drivers/mfd/as3722.c | 12 ++---------- > drivers/of/device.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- > include/linux/i2c.h | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 5 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
