Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: x1205: Fix Xicor X1205 vendor prefix

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > The vendor for the X1205 RTC is not Xircom, but Xicor which was acquired
> > by Intersil. Since the I2C subsystem drops the vendor prefix for driver
> > matching, the vendor prefix hasn't mattered.
> >
> > Fixes: 6875404fdb44 ("rtc: x1205: Add DT probing support")
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This should probably be tagged for stable since there is
> a device tree using this (correct) compatible and it doesn't
> probe right now.

It should probe just fine as I explained. The I2C subsystem strips the
vendor prefix off for matching, so what you put doesn't really matter.

Rob