Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: lontium: Drop redundant vendor prefix from I2C device name

[Luca Ceresoli]

On Tue Aug 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM CEST, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Device names for i2c_device_id are not OF compatibles and have a meaning
> only for in-tree users (which there are no except the driver itself),
> thus vendor prefix in this name is completely redundant.
>
> It is actually a discouraged pattern because for OF platforms it allows
> matching driver by I2C bus, instead of OF, thus hiding incomplete
> way of obtaining driver match data (lack of i2c_get_match_data() usage).
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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