[RESEND PATCH 1/4] ARM: dts: efm32: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Thu Dec 21 07:06:59 PST 2017
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javierm at redhat.com> wrote:
> The at24 driver allows to register I2C EEPROM chips using different vendor
> and devices, but the I2C subsystem does not take the vendor into account
> when matching using the I2C table since it only has device entries.
>
> But when matching using an OF table, both the vendor and device has to be
> taken into account so the driver defines only a set of compatible strings
> using the "atmel" vendor as a generic fallback for compatible I2C devices.
>
> So add this generic fallback to the device node compatible string to make
> the device to match the driver using the OF device ID table.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>
Applied to next/dt, thanks
Arnd
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