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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:27:50AM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 19 May 2015 at 03:34, Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So how about the following patch? It seems like we'll need to be able to
> > ignore useless 'modalias' values in cases like this:
> >
> >         // modalias = "shinynewdevice"
> >         compatible = "myvendor,shinynewdevice", "jedec,spi-nor";
> >
> > and also if somebody leaves off the entire shinynewdevice string:
> >
> >         // modalias = "spi-nor"
> >         compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
> >
> > So we rework the spi-nor library to not reject "bad" names, and just
> > fall back to autodetection, and we add the .of_match_table to properly
> > catch all "jedec,spi-nor".
> 
> That's nice but what about platforms using platform data instead of
> DT? I would like to use some kind of "spi-nor" (with some prefix
> *maybe*) for them too.

For platform devices, you might as well just use the name of the driver,
which is 'm25p80'. Isn't that how most platform devices are matched with
drivers?

Or if you can propose other clean solutions, I'm all ears. I'm likely to
merge this patch for 4.2 unless a better solution comes up, though.

Brian