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

[Warner Losh]

On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:52 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> 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

Also keep in mind that the device tree is supposed to be a description of the hardware, and different implementations of the device tree may use the compatible string.

Warner