Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 03/16] ARM: dts: efm32: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Wed Aug 16 2017 - 10:21:18 EST


On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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>
>

Any comment on this?

Wolfram, maybe you can ack the pending DTS patches so I can post them
to the arm-soc maintainers directly for they to pick them?

Best regards,
Javier