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

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 07:08:28PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> It makes less changes for any (potentially) backported code.
>> I'm not insisting and even can do myself.
>
> Sorry, I was referring to the series itself, not your feedback above. You
> assigned this to yourself in patchwork, so I was just noting that this patch
> series may be a candidate for fixes to 4.11, rather than testing/for-next for
> 4.12. Your call.

Ah, thanks Darren for clarification.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko