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SubjectRe: [PATCH] driver: misc: bmp085: remove "of_match_table" property.
Hi,

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:42:14PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 12:30:34PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 02:58:44PM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
> > > There is an automatic binding done for I2C devices in the of_i2c core
> > > code. So, DT will be able to bind to any I2C device using the
> > > already existing table: MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, bmp085_id).
>
> > Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
>
> 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
string is just churn and has no use at all.

--
balbi
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