Re: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: silead_dmi - do not treat all devices as i2c_clients

From: Darren Hart
Date: Tue Apr 04 2017 - 12:05:54 EST


On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 04:45:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I2C bus has both i2c clients and adapter devices, so we must be careful in
> > notifier code and verify that we are actually dealing with an i2c client
> > before using it as such.
>
> > -static void silead_ts_dmi_add_props(struct device *dev)
> > +static void silead_ts_dmi_add_props(struct i2c_client *client)
> > {
>
> > - struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev);
>
> I would replace this by
> struct device *dev = &client->dev;
>
> Otherwise looks good for me.

Andy, this series looks like a candidate for 4.11-fixes. We're already at rc5
though, so if we are going to do that, I'd like to see a stronger statement in
the commit log about how this issue manifests currently - if it does.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center