On 01/26/2015 05:42 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
Le 16/01/2015 02:17, Bo Shen a écrit :
Does this end up in the i2c_driver_id driver data or do we need some extra code when devtype is assigned to check for an of_node and look at the DT data instead? That certainly used to be the case...
At the beginning I think as the same as you, and also add the code to get the data as I do in <drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c>. However, as I remember, I2C seems only use the compatible string after the comma, that means only for "wlf,wm8904", it uses "wm8904" to match. So, I remove all the code I added, and just keep these, and it can get the device type correctly.
So, when I submit the patch and keep the code as simple as possible.
I don't understand what's keeping this patch from being applied. Voice, do you mind re-sending?
I need to convince myself that the above actually works and is doing the right thing; the above explanation sounds like if it works it might be relying on a bug.
I'd call it a undocumented feature. But I wouldn't rely on it being around for ever. In my opinion to be future proof the driver should explicitly handle the OF case in the probe function.