The i2c_of_match_device() was developed as internal API and was exported just in case well before we get an idea of the generic helper for getting driver data for the matched device. For all the times of i2c_of_match_device() being exported there were _only_ three users, two of which had been already converted to better API. For preventing the use of i2c_of_match_device(), make it private to I²C subsystem. This is assumed to go via I²C tree, but can be done differently taking into account the immutable tag or branch for involved subsystems. In v2: - collected tags (Sebastian) - removed one leftover in the first patch Andy Shevchenko (2): power: ip5xxx_power: Make use of i2c_get_match_data() i2c: Unexport i2c_of_match_device() drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c | 1 - drivers/i2c/i2c-core.h | 9 +++++++++ drivers/power/supply/ip5xxx_power.c | 7 ++----- include/linux/i2c.h | 11 ----------- 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.45.1.3035.g276e886db78b
