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

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 23:32:42 +0200, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:

>> 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?
>
> It's what we do on platform_devices. It really isn't an expensive
> operation so I haven't pushed anyone to go optimize it.

I tried to think of something and it ended up with ideas like
decorating the device tree representation and it was just ...
ouch.

Yours,
Linus Walleij