Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon/pmbus: use simple i2c probe function

[Stephen Kitt]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 08:23:29 -0700, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/7/20 12:45 AM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> > pmbus_do_probe doesn't use the id information provided in its second
> > argument, so this can be removed, which then allows using the
> > single-parameter i2c probe function ("probe_new") for probes.
> > 
> > This avoids scanning the identifier tables during probes.
> > 
> > Drivers which didn't use the id are converted as-is; drivers which did
> > are modified as follows:
> > 
> > * if the information in i2c_client is sufficient, that's used instead
> >   (client->name);
> > * configured v. probed comparisons are performed by comparing the
> >   configured name to the detected name, instead of the ids; this
> >   involves strcmp but is still cheaper than comparing all the device
> >   names when scanning the tables;
> > * anything else is handled by calling i2c_match_id() with the same
> >   level of error-handling (if any) as before.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx>  
> 
> Please also update the documentation.
> 
> Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst:  int pmbus_do_probe(struct i2c_client
> *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id, Documentation/hwmon/pmbus.rst:
> return pmbus_do_probe(client, id, &ds1200_info);

Aargh, I usually *start* from the documentation, but I didn’t think to check
in this case.

> Also, please fix the checkpatch issue reported by Wolfram.

Will do, v3 on its way.

Thanks for the reviews!

Regards,

Stephen

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