[PATCH] driver: misc: bmp085: remove "of_match_table" property.
Mark Brown
broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Tue Aug 7 06:52:26 EDT 2012
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 08:43:44AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:42:14PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > It's good practice to have an explict compatible string even if the
> > default happens to work in order to avoid any name clashes.
> of_i2c.c makes no use whatsoever of the compatible string. See that it
> will build an i2c_boardinfo and register a new device. That compatible
If that's all that's done it seems like a bug frankly, certainly based
on previous discussions it ought to be. There are collisions out there,
they've just happened to not bite us yet
> string is just churn and has no use at all.
This is device tree we're talking about, there's a lot churn anyway.
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