Re: [PATCH 4/4] eeprom: at24: Add OF device ID table

Wolfram Sang
2017-03-15T07:58:35Z

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> So there isn't an agreement if is better to just rely in the current behavior
> (and have a superfluous I2C device ID table) or fix the I2C core (and need a
> OF device ID table).

For at24, the i2c_device_id table is not superfluous! It is used outside
the DT world as well.

> Indeed, but these all are compatible strings used by DTS in mainline and so
> should be in the OF device ID table in order to be matched and the proper
> modalias reported (once the I2C core is fixed).

I'd think we should fix the DTS files instead to contain a fallback we
agree on. Say, we agree on "atmel,at24c01" as a the generic fallback,
the DTS should contain:

compatible = "<your_vendor>,<your_type>", "atmel,at24c01"

And we shall only keep compatible values in the source file which differ
in behaviour fromt the generic case.

> One option is to add #ifdef CONFIG_OF guards for the OF device table definition
> but again there's no agreement on that one since some maintainers say the it is
> better to always build the OF ID table than having #ifdefery in C code...

I don't like the #ifdeffery as well.

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