> As we match on only the device, not the manufacturer, I've changed your sketch > so that the test maxim line is on a compatible with name ds9999 to make it > unique. Otherwise, we would match to the dallas,ds1307 id type. OK, so I assumed correctly that userspace instantiation wouldn't have worked fully. > If you would prefer that we support separate manufacturers, I can update the > match function so that it attempts a full match first, followed by a stripped > manufacturer match. I'm not certain if we have a need for that at the moment > though, as the current drivers simply match on the device name: I think we *need* that. We can't instantiate my previous example via userspace otherwise. Also, stripping vendor names is what we want to get rid of with this series, no? > This patch also demonstrates a method to obtain the device ID from the new > match system for drivers which would normally have expected this information to > be passed in. Thanks for the testing! Wolfram
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