From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [PATCH] dt: Update I2C trivial devices list Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:14:40 -0700 Message-ID: <52B07870.6070809@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1387239151-19226-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1387239151-19226-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ben Gamari , Wolfram Sang Cc: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 12/16/2013 05:12 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt > This is a list of trivial i2c devices that have simple device tree > bindings, consisting only of a compatible field, an address and > -possibly an interrupt line. > +possibly an interrupt line. The compatible field is used to lookup the > +modalias of the driver which will handle the device. The compatible > +string may begin with a manufacturer prefix (separated from the > +modalias by a comma) which will be stripped off during lookup. This part of the patch described Linux-specific behaviour, whereas DT bindings should be OS-agnostic. BTW, you didn't CC the DT binding maintainers.