On 14/11/16 22:27, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 12:47:42PM +0000, Kieran Bingham wrote: >> A user can choose to instantiate a device on an i2c bus using the sysfs >> interface by providing a string and address to match and communicate >> with the device on the bus. Presently this string is only matched >> against the old i2c device id style strings, even in the presence of >> full device tree compatible strings with vendor prefixes. >> >> Providing a vendor-prefixed string to the sysfs interface will not match >> against the device tree of_match_device() calls as there is no device >> tree node to parse from the sysfs interface. >> >> Convert i2c_of_match_device_strip_vendor() such that it can match both > > The function name here is the old one... > >> vendor prefixed and stripped compatible strings on the sysfs interface. >> >> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > ... and in patch 2, the sentence "remove this function if all drivers > are converted" is obsolete, too, since we need this function always for > sysfs. > > This make me wonder if we shouldn't squash this patch also in into patch > 2 (like I suggested for the next one), and create a best-of-all-worlds > commit message from these three patches? > > Opinions? That's fine with me - My main reason for keeping them separate during posting was so that the changes I had made could be seen - but yes - I think they probably are eligible for squashing. -- Regards Kieran Bingham -- 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
