Subject: [PATCH] mfd: axp20x-i2c: Add i2c-ids to fix module auto-loading

From: [email-masked] (Lee Jones)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:09:38 +0100

On Tue, 18 Oct 2016, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 18-10-16 07:25, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Hans de Goede <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > > The i2c subsys does not load modules by compatible, only by
> > > i2c-id, with e.g. a modalias of: "i2c:axp209".
> > > 
> > > Populate the axp20x_i2c_id[] table with supported ids, so that
> > > module auto-loading will work.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Dennis Gilmore <[email-masked]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Even though axp20x-i2c seems to be the only "DT only" i2c client,
> > would it make sense to add DT-based module autoloading to the i2c
> > core?
> 
> If it is not too invasive, then yes that would be a sensible addition IMHO.

If I understand you correctly, I already have a patch-set on the ML
that does this.

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