Re: [PATCH] iio: potentiometer: Add driver for Microchip MCP41xxx/42xxx

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On 2018-11-11 15:55, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 16:37:11 +0000
> Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> Some comments inline...
> A few additions from me.

*snip*

>>> +	data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
>>> +	spi_set_drvdata(spi, indio_dev);
>>> +	data->spi = spi;
>>> +	data->cfg = &mcp41010_cfg[devid];  
>>
>> I'm missing a "of_device_get_match_data(dev)" call somewhere in here, see e.g. the
>> max5481.c file in this directory. Yes, that's missing from the mcp4131 driver as
>> well, but that's not a valid reason for not doing it here AFAICT...
> If you want to use the data elements from the devicetree bindings you'll need
> to do that.  However, there is an odd path that actually means it will fall back
> to getting the right thing as you have it here.
> spi_get_device_id calls spi_match_id which compares the sdev->modalias
> with the id table names.  modalias has been carefully constructed
> to be the text after the comma only and as such this works as is.
> 
> Perhaps it's neater though to just use the devicetree access functions.

Isn't that part about not looking at the vendor-part of the DT-compatible slightly
fragile? Or will modalias/chip-number clashes be detected by something?

Cheers,
Peter




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