[PATCH v5 06/20] ARM: dts: imx: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM

Shawn Guo shawnguo at kernel.org
Thu May 25 00:32:35 PDT 2017


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:34:34PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas 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 <javier at dowhile0.org>

Applied, thanks.



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