Re: [PATCH 2/3] ASoC: pcm179x: Add I2C interface driver

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:25:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 05:56:57PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 05:14:42PM +0100, Michael Trimarchi wrote:
> 
> > > > +       { .compatible = "ti,pcm1792a", },
> > > > +       { }
> > > > +};
> > > > +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, pcm179x_of_match);
> 
> > > can match go in the common part?
> 
> > For matching purposes it could, but that would prevent the OF-aliases
> > from being defined for the driver modules.
> 
> > There are a couple of codec drivers that have taken this route, and it
> > works as long as they also define a legacy (e.g. i2c_device_id) table
> > that modalias autoloading can fall back to.
> 
> > But having having the common module carry the OF-aliases does not seem
> > like the right thing to do (e.g. as the common module cannot drive
> > anything on its own) even if it avoids a copy of the OF id table.
> 
> This does seem like something that the modules code should be able to
> cope with - we have a reference from the driver struct to the table
> which you'd really expect it to be using.  We already have some issues
> there with userspace not handling multiple modaliases terribly well IIRC.

That reference is only used for matching, while the aliases are
generated from the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE macro (and elf magic).

Even if this sometimes means duplicating an id-table (and i2c and spi OF
id tables aren't necessarily always identical either), it seems to me
that the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE should go in the actual driver rather than
any module dependency.

Thanks,
Johan