From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753675Ab2HGKwf (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:52:35 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:37843 "EHLO opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752071Ab2HGKwd (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:52:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:52:26 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Felipe Balbi Cc: Sourav Poddar , arnd@arndb.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver: misc: bmp085: remove "of_match_table" property. Message-ID: <20120807105225.GT16861@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <1344245324-16704-1-git-send-email-sourav.poddar@ti.com> <20120806093033.GH17551@arwen.pp.htv.fi> <20120806154214.GC29272@sirena.org.uk> <20120807054342.GF8468@arwen.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120807054342.GF8468@arwen.pp.htv.fi> X-Cookie: You will be married within a year. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 08:43:44AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:42:14PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > It's good practice to have an explict compatible string even if the > > default happens to work in order to avoid any name clashes. > of_i2c.c makes no use whatsoever of the compatible string. See that it > will build an i2c_boardinfo and register a new device. That compatible If that's all that's done it seems like a bug frankly, certainly based on previous discussions it ought to be. There are collisions out there, they've just happened to not bite us yet > string is just churn and has no use at all. This is device tree we're talking about, there's a lot churn anyway.