Re: [PATCH 1/4] eeprom: at24: don't assign the i2c ID table to at24_driver

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Wed Apr 11 2018 - 06:09:16 EST


2018-04-11 11:56 GMT+02:00 Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 2018-04-10 15:12, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> We switched to using probe_new(), so this is no longer used
>> by i2c core.
>
> It seems to be used in i2c_device_match() ???
>
> This could easily be me not understanding something...
>

Yes, but i2c core no longer uses the id_table field in struct
i2c_driver. We call i2c_device_match() ourselves instead of letting
i2c core do it and pass the driver data to probe().

Hope that helps,
Bartosz