Re: [PATCH] Drop superfluous setting of i2c_board_info.type

From: Sascha Hauer
Date: Tue May 29 2012 - 13:22:43 EST


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:40:26PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 18:22 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:38:23PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > 1) This is apparently legal. Doesn't gcc issue a warning for this?
> > I wondered about that too, gcc doesn't even warn when the two values are
> > different. See for example commit
> > bd9e310dca15c9987256f67af19f9f42426e7493.
>
> In that case it were two strings ("rtc-pcf8563" versus "pcf8563"). Why
> should gcc care? Or is there something going on behind the scenes which
> somehow depends on the contents of the string?
>
> > > arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-cpuimx35.c | 1 -
> > > arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-cpuimx51sd.c | 1 -
> > I already submitted a patch for the imx bits with Message id
> > 1335989287-10094-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > (e.g.
> > http://mid.gmane.org/1335989287-10094-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
> Thanks. I missed that one, obviously. Should I just drop that part of
> the patch and resend?

I just merged Uwes patch, this leaves the sh-mobile hunk still to be
fixed.

Sascha


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