Re: [PATCHv7 07/11] i2c: match dt-style device names from sysfs interface

From: Kieran Bingham
Date: Tue Nov 15 2016 - 04:48:54 EST




On 14/11/16 22:27, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 12:47:42PM +0000, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>> A user can choose to instantiate a device on an i2c bus using the sysfs
>> interface by providing a string and address to match and communicate
>> with the device on the bus. Presently this string is only matched
>> against the old i2c device id style strings, even in the presence of
>> full device tree compatible strings with vendor prefixes.
>>
>> Providing a vendor-prefixed string to the sysfs interface will not match
>> against the device tree of_match_device() calls as there is no device
>> tree node to parse from the sysfs interface.
>>
>> Convert i2c_of_match_device_strip_vendor() such that it can match both
>
> The function name here is the old one...
>
>> vendor prefixed and stripped compatible strings on the sysfs interface.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ... and in patch 2, the sentence "remove this function if all drivers
> are converted" is obsolete, too, since we need this function always for
> sysfs.
>
> This make me wonder if we shouldn't squash this patch also in into patch
> 2 (like I suggested for the next one), and create a best-of-all-worlds
> commit message from these three patches?
>
> Opinions?

That's fine with me - My main reason for keeping them separate during
posting was so that the changes I had made could be seen - but yes - I
think they probably are eligible for squashing.


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Regards

Kieran Bingham