[alsa-devel] [PATCH v1] ASoC: rt5677: Convert I2C driver to ->probe_new()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 14:11 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 06:11:12PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > But the id table is already empty...?
> > > Right, that seems like a bug though.
> > Well, that's what the commit ddc9e69b9dc2 does after all: it cleans
> > up
> > the legacy usage, and moves all either OF or ACPI matching.
> 
> Which is broken since not all the world is ACPI or DT.

While I agree on the second part, I don't think it's broken per se,
there never was a single user of that, and looking how ASoC board files
are organized it is quite unlikely there will be one...

> > If we want to take back old i2c ids, better to put the explicit
> > i2c_match_id() check in rt5677_i2c_probe() instead of sticking with
> > the old i2c probe callback.
> 
> That's what I said, yes.

...though we can (re)introduce this dead code back for a potential user
in the future.

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
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