[PATCH] i2c: Make I2C ID tables non-mandatory for DT'ed and/or ACPI'ed devices

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Jun 2 06:26:13 PDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:

> Though, I wouldn't mind if compatible entries could be passed to the
> 'new_device' file, in addition to i2c_device_ids. Yet, this needs some
> extra handling I haven't found the time for, yet.

Hm that's a way forward then I guess... but passing a compatible
string to that same file is a bit arbitrarily ambigous. So we'd rather
add a new instatiation file named new_device_of_compatible or so?

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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