Messages in this thread |  | | | From | David Brownell <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching | | Date | Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:21:22 -0700 |
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On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Ben Dooks wrote: > > struct spi_driver { > > + const struct spi_device_id *id_table; > > + int (*probe_id)(struct spi_device *spi, > > + const struct spi_device_id *id); > > how about leaving it at just probe and have either a call or a field > in the device that you can look at to see if this was a new style of > call? > > > int (*probe)(struct spi_device *spi);
For the record, if this is going to happen I think the appropriate long-term solution is to have probe() take the device_id just as it does with other busses.
Of course that involves changing *every* SPI driver... and I'd rather not do that quite yet.
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