Re: [PATCH v2] iio: adc: max9611: fix module auto-loading

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 11:51 AM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:01:07 +0100
> Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello Jonathan,
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> >
>> > I may well be missing some subtle detail of course having spent only a few
>> > minute looking at this!
>> >
>>
>> Your understanding is correct. This change has nothing to do with
>> module autoloading.
>>
>> The .probe_new callback is only used to avoid requiring an I2C device
>> ID table since the old .probe callback has a struct i2c_device_id as a
>> parameter and so requires a table even in OF (or ACPI) only drivers.
>
> OK, then let us revisit this patch once we have an answer on your one
> fixing the autoprobing more generally.  Until we then we don't know
> whether we need to add the i2c table in or not whether this suffices.
>

That's correct. If the driver is for a device that's OF-only (e.g:
will never be used from a non-DT platform) then I don't think we
should add a I2C table.

Now, if Wolfram nacks my patch then we should add it as a workaround
to have auto-loading working.

> Jonathan
>

Best regards,
Javier