Re: [PATCH 2/5] power: sbs-battery: rename internals to new name

From: Rhyland Klein
Date: Mon Dec 05 2011 - 20:21:20 EST


On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 17:20 -0800, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:58:04PM -0800, Rhyland Klein wrote:
> [...]
> > -static const struct i2c_device_id bq20z75_id[] = {
> > - { "bq20z75", 0 },
> > +static const struct i2c_device_id sbs_id[] = {
> > + { "sbs-battery", 0 },
>
> You have to leave "bq20z75" here as is, and add "sbs-battery" as an
> additional device id.
>
> The reason is that older device trees might already have compatible
> = "bq20z75", without specifying "sbs-battery".
>
> Thanks!
>

Good thought! I had thought about that at some point but apparently not
when actually working on the patch. Will do in v2.

-rhyland

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