On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 04:06:03PM +0300, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote: > When devices are instatiated through devicetree the i2c_client->name is > set to the compatible string with company name stripped out. This is > then matched to the i2c_device_id table to pass the device_id to the > probe function. This id parameter is used by some device drivers to > differentiate between model numbers. > > When using ACPI this id parameter is NULL and the driver usually needs > to do ACPI-specific differentiation. > > This patch attempts to find a valid i2c_device_id when using ACPI with > DT-like compatible strings. Note that this DT behaviour is about to be dropped to match I2C with the "generic" behaviour". https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/4/534
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