On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 11:29 +0100, Nick Dyer wrote: > On 09/09/14 11:21, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: > > On 09/09/2014 09:52 AM, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > >> For i2c devices in OF the modalias exposed to userspace is i2c:<node > >> type>, for the Maxtouch driver this is i2c:maxtouch. > >> > >> Add maxtouch to the i2c id table such that userspace can correctly > >> load the module for the device and drop the OF table as it's not > >> needed for i2c devices. > > I see that Lee is working to allow the I2C subsystem to not need an I2C ID > > table to match [0]. I'll let Lee to comment what the future plans are and if > > his series are going to solve your issue since I'm not that familiar with the > > I2C core. > > I can see the benefit of not having the duplication. Am I correct that > you're saying that it might make more sense to remove the i2c ids rather > than the OF table, if Lee's changes are accepted? You would still need the i2C table for non-OF platforms ofcourse. I'm not sure what happens with the modalias as exposed to userspace with Lee's patchset, if that gets changed to prefer an of: type instead of the current i2c: prefixed ones this patch (at that point) isn't needed. -- Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Collabora Ltd.
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