Re: [PATCH v5 14/20] arm64: dts: ls1043a: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Thu May 25 2017 - 03:34:10 EST


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:34:42PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The at24 driver allows to register I2C EEPROM chips using different vendor
> and devices, but the I2C subsystem does not take the vendor into account
> when matching using the I2C table since it only has device entries.
>
> But when matching using an OF table, both the vendor and device has to be
> taken into account so the driver defines only a set of compatible strings
> using the "atmel" vendor as a generic fallback for compatible I2C devices.
>
> So add this generic fallback to the device node compatible string to make
> the device to match the driver using the OF device ID table.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.