[PATCH v5 05/20] ARM: dts: efm32: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu May 25 11:29:02 PDT 2017
Hello,
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:34:33PM +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>
Assuming the of-table patch is accepted this can have my:
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
Otherwise I'm not convinced this is worth the churn.
Thanks
Uwe
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