Hi Wolfram, I have picked this patchset [0] up from Lee to rebase it, with an aim to get this series moving again. A couple of minor issues were resolved in the rebase. As it stood, Javier proposed [1] to merge this series, and use a follow up series to make sure that all I2C drivers are using a MODLE_DEVICE_TABLE(of,...) I have prepared a Coccinelle patch to work through the bulk of the changes required for the conversion, which will assist the transition process. [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/283 [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/12/496 Lee's most recent cover-letter (from 12 months ago) follows: Hi Wolfram, Placing this firmly back on your plate. I truly hope we don't miss another merge-window. This patch-set has the support of some pretty senior kernel maintainers, so I hope acceptance shouldn't be too difficult. 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. v4: [Kieran Bingham] - Rebase to v4.2 - adapt for dev_pm_domain_{attach,detach} - strnicmp to strncasecmp v3: [Lee Jones] - Insist on passing 'struct i2c_client' instead of 'struct device' - Remove hook from of_match_device() v2: [Lee Jones] - 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 =;-) Lee Jones (8): i2c: Add pointer dereference protection to i2c_match_id() i2c: Add the ability to match device to compatible string without an of_node i2c: Match using traditional OF methods, then by vendor-less compatible strings i2c: Make I2C ID tables non-mandatory for DT'ed devices i2c: Export i2c_match_id() for direct use by device drivers i2c: Provide a temporary .probe2() call-back type mfd: 88pm860x: Move over to new I2C device .probe() call mfd: as3722: Rid driver of superfluous I2C device ID structure drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- drivers/mfd/88pm860x-core.c | 5 ++- drivers/mfd/as3722.c | 12 ++----- include/linux/i2c.h | 22 +++++++++++- 4 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4 -- 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
