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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] ACPI: surface3_power: MSHW0011 rev-eng implementation
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 30-06-17 18:37, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Benjamin Tissoires

> ACPI i2c drivers still need an empty i2c_device_id table I've
> fixing this on my TODO but it has been buried in other stuff.
>
> Benjamin if (not saying you should, but if) you want to take a look at
> this, fixing the need for the empty table for ACPI devices should be
> easy. The problem is these lines in drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:
> i2c_device_probe():
>
> /*
> * An I2C ID table is not mandatory, if and only if, a suitable
> Device
> * Tree match table entry is supplied for the probing device.
> */
> if (!driver->id_table &&
> !i2c_of_match_device(dev->driver->of_match_table, client))
> return -ENODEV;
>
> Which needs to be extended to also check for an ACPI match AFAIK
> you can NOT just replace this with i2c_device_match because that would
> break manually binding a driver through sysfs.

I have a stashed change for that, just have no time to look closer.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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