[PATCH v2] i2c: core: make it possible to match a pure device tree driver

[Grant Likely]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:40:14 +0200, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 02:18:17PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:
> > > ...
> > >> I2C devices probed from device tree should subsequently be
> > >> fixed to handle the case where of_match_table() is
> > >> used (I think none of them do that today), and platforms should
> > >> fix their device trees to use compatible strings for I2C devices
> > >> instead of setting the name to Linux device driver names as is
> > >> done in multiple cases today.
> > >
> > > I guess your solution is the least intrusive one. Still, it could happen
> > > that of_match_table is scanned three times (by driver core, i2c layer,
> > > and i2c driver) which is IMO an indication to look for a more elegant
> > > solution tp find out what really matched?
> > 
> > I think that is a generic problem with the device tree
> > being completely stateless, and rather a comment on the
> > of_match_device() intrinsics being inelegant than on this
> > patch?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Do you see it as a blocker for the patch?
> 
> No blocker. Yet, I was hoping for somebody perhaps having a good idea.
> Platform devices have 'id_entry', for example. Sadly, I don't have the
> resources to pick up a similar idea.
> 

I did at one time have a patch that kept the pointer around in the
struct device if an of_match_table succeeded, but it caused subtle race
conditions that weren't easy to solve. I reverted back to just calling
of_match_table() several times because it was easy.

g.