On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Kieran Bingham wrote: > If a user provides a shortened string to match a device to the sysfs i2c > interface it will match on the first string that contains that string > prefix. > > for example: > echo a 0x68 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/new_device > > will match as3711, as3722, and ak8975 incorrectly. > > Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c > index 01bce56f733a..50c9cfdb87b7 100644 > --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c > +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c > @@ -1708,7 +1708,7 @@ i2c_of_match_device_strip_vendor(const struct of_device_id *matches, > else > name++; > > - if (!strncasecmp(client->name, name, strlen(client->name))) > + if (!strncasecmp(client->name, name, strlen(name))) > return matches; > } > -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- 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