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Re: [RESEND, v5, 12/16] powerpc/5200: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM

From Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RESEND, v5, 12/16] powerpc/5200: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM
Date 2017-06-29 14:30 +0200
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On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 18:54:14 UTC, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The at24 driver allows to register I2C EEPROM chips using different vendor
> and devices, but the I2C subsystem does not take the vendor into account
> when matching using the I2C table since it only has device entries.
> 
> But when matching using an OF table, both the vendor and device has to be
> taken into account so the driver defines only a set of compatible strings
> using the "atmel" vendor as a generic fallback for compatible I2C devices.
> 
> So add this generic fallback to the device node compatible string to make
> the device to match the driver using the OF device ID table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/fd393188064e3d01a91a21160751f6

cheers

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Re: [RESEND, v5, 12/16] powerpc/5200: Add generic compatible string for I2C EEPROM Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au> - 2017-06-29 14:30 +0200

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