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Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 01/16] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: Document vendor to be used and deprecated ones

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  Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 01/16] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: Document  vendor to be used and deprecated ones Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-06-23 20:20 +0200

#1673755 — Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 01/16] dt-bindings: i2c: eeprom: Document vendor to be used and deprecated ones

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:54:03PM +0200, 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.
> 
> Document in the Device Tree binding document that this manufacturer should
> be used as the generic fallback. Also document the deprecated vendors.
> 
> Suggested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
> Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - Only deprecate the atmel variants at25 and at (Geert Uytterhoeven).
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Document the manufacturers that have been deprecated (Rob Herring).
> 
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/eeprom/eeprom.txt | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

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