[PATCH v5 00/23]

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Feb 3 07:46:59 EST 2014


On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 07:06:06PM +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:

> - the .of_match_table is not needed because the i2c client is created by
>   the i2c subsystem from the 'reg' in the DT,

It's generally better to have an explict set of OF IDs even if the
default does work - matching purely on the device name does work almost
all the time but there are collisions out there with different
manufacturers using the same prefix for their chips (the example I
always trot out is that both Wolfson and Wondermedia use "wm").
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