Re: [PATCH v6] eeprom: at24: Add OF device ID table

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Sun Nov 05 2017 - 16:53:57 EST


On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 12:49:48PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The driver doesn't have a struct of_device_id table but supported devices
> are registered via Device Trees. This is working on the assumption that a
> I2C device registered via OF will always match a legacy I2C device ID and
> that the MODALIAS reported will always be of the form i2c:<device>.
>
> But this could change in the future so the correct approach is to have an
> OF device ID table if the devices are registered via OF.
>
> To maintain backward compatibility with old Device Trees, only use the OF
> device ID table .data if the device was registered via OF and the OF node
> compatible matches an entry in the OF device ID table.
>
> Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Applied to for-next, thanks for keeping at it!

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