Re: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: silead_dmi - do not treat all devices as i2c_clients

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Apr 04 2017 - 12:08:35 EST


On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 04:45:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
>> <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I2C bus has both i2c clients and adapter devices, so we must be careful in
>> > notifier code and verify that we are actually dealing with an i2c client
>> > before using it as such.
>>
>> > -static void silead_ts_dmi_add_props(struct device *dev)
>> > +static void silead_ts_dmi_add_props(struct i2c_client *client)
>> > {
>>
>> > - struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev);
>>
>> I would replace this by
>> struct device *dev = &client->dev;
>>
>> Otherwise looks good for me.
>
> Andy, this series looks like a candidate for 4.11-fixes. We're already at rc5
> though, so if we are going to do that, I'd like to see a stronger statement in
> the commit log about how this issue manifests currently - if it does.

It makes less changes for any (potentially) backported code.
I'm not insisting and even can do myself.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko