From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@samsung.com>,
linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mfd: max77686: Export OF module alias information
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:55:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C17667.3010409@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455251419-8919-5-git-send-email-javier@osg.samsung.com>
On 12.02.2016 13:30, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> When the device is registered via OF, the OF table is used to match the
> driver instead of the I2C device ID table but the entries in the latter
> are used as aliasses to load the module if the driver was not built-in.
>
> This is because the I2C core always reports an I2C module alias instead
> of an OF one but that could change so it is better to always export it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
>
> ---
>
> drivers/mfd/max77686.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
Makes sense,
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Best regards,
Krzysztof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-15 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-12 4:30 [PATCH 0/4] mfd: max77686: Allow the driver to be built as a module Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-02-12 4:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] mfd: max77686: Add max77802 to I2C device ID table Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-02-15 5:21 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-03-08 4:24 ` Lee Jones
2016-02-12 4:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] mfd: max77686: Use module_i2c_driver() instead of subsys initcall Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-02-15 6:54 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-02-15 8:21 ` Lee Jones
2016-02-15 15:21 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-02-15 23:20 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-02-16 20:45 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-02-17 7:49 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-02-17 18:38 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-02-17 9:27 ` Marek Szyprowski
2016-02-17 9:34 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-02-12 4:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] mfd: max77686: Allow driver to be built as a module Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-03-08 4:11 ` Lee Jones
2016-02-12 4:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] mfd: max77686: Export OF module alias information Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-02-15 6:55 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski [this message]
2016-03-08 4:24 ` Lee Jones
2016-02-15 7:04 ` [PATCH 0/4] mfd: max77686: Allow the driver to be built as a module Andi Shyti
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