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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 23:23:11 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] adv7180: add of match table
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Hello.

On 04/14/2014 02:36 PM, Ben Dooks wrote:

> Add a proper of match id for use when the device is being bound via
> device tree, to avoid having to use the i2c old-style binding of the
> device.

> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>

    From looking at of_i2c_register_devices() in drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c, I got 
an impression we don't need this patch. This function builds the I2C device 
name by calling of_modalias_node() which just strips the vendor prefix (if 
any) from the "compatible" prop.

WBR, Sergei