Re: [PATCH] mfd: rohm-bdXXX - switch to use i2c probe_new

From: Vaittinen, Matti
Date: Wed Apr 15 2020 - 06:50:33 EST


Hello Lee,

On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 10:50 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
>
> > ROHM BD70528 and BD718x7 drivers do not utilize the I2C id.
> > Do the trivial conversion and make them to use probe_new
> > instead of probe.
>
> Not sure I understand the purpose of the patch.
>
> The only reason to switch to probe_new is to aid the removal of the
> compulsory I2C tables. However, neither of these drivers have them.

Maybe I have misunderstood the probe_new. My understanding was that the
probe_new is what should become the standard - Eg. eventually all I2C
drivers would use probe which is not getting the ID tables as argument
- and the old probe could be removed. Thus I thought conversion of
probe to probe_new would be required in order to get rid of the old
probe. I think I got this understanding when I submitted driver for
BD71828 - and I think it was you who suggested me to switch to
probe_new as 'id' was unused. But if please just drop this patch if
this change is not needed!

Thanks for taking a look at this :)

Best Regards
--Matti

>
> > Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/mfd/rohm-bd70528.c | 5 ++---
> > drivers/mfd/rohm-bd718x7.c | 5 ++---
> > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)