Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: surface3_power: MSHW0011 rev-eng implementation

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 30-06-17 18:37, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Benjamin Tissoires

<snip>

> > > > +static const struct i2c_device_id mshw0011_id[] = {
> > > > +       { }
> > > > +};
> > > > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, mshw0011_id);
> > >
> > > ->probe_new(), please.
> >
> > Correct
> >
> > > If I2C framework is _still_ broken we need to fix that part.
> >
> > I haven't check, so let's see for v3.
>
> Cc: Wolfram for v3 and ask him directly. Last time I checked it looks
> like I2C core doesn't care about ACPI when ->probe_new() is used.

ACPI i2c drivers still need an empty i2c_device_id table I've
fixing this on my TODO but it has been buried in other stuff.

Benjamin if (not saying you should, but if) you want to take a look at
this, fixing the need for the empty table for ACPI devices should be
easy. The problem is these lines in drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:
i2c_device_probe():

        /*
         * An I2C ID table is not mandatory, if and only if, a suitable Device
         * Tree match table entry is supplied for the probing device.
         */
        if (!driver->id_table &&
            !i2c_of_match_device(dev->driver->of_match_table, client))
                return -ENODEV;

Which needs to be extended to also check for an ACPI match AFAIK
you can NOT just replace this with i2c_device_match because that would
break manually binding a driver through sysfs.

Regards,

Hans