Re: [RFC v2 2/2] i2c: Pass i2c_device_id to probe func when using DT ids through ACPI

[Wolfram Sang]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 04:06:03PM +0300, Crestez Dan Leonard wrote:
> When devices are instatiated through devicetree the i2c_client->name is
> set to the compatible string with company name stripped out. This is
> then matched to the i2c_device_id table to pass the device_id to the
> probe function. This id parameter is used by some device drivers to
> differentiate between model numbers.
> 
> When using ACPI this id parameter is NULL and the driver usually needs
> to do ACPI-specific differentiation.
> 
> This patch attempts to find a valid i2c_device_id when using ACPI with
> DT-like compatible strings.

Note that this DT behaviour is about to be dropped to match I2C with
the "generic" behaviour".

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/4/534

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