Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching

From: David Brownell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:21:22 -0700

On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Ben Dooks wrote:
> >  struct spi_driver {
> > +     const struct spi_device_id *id_table;
> > +     int                     (*probe_id)(struct spi_device *spi,
> > +                                         const struct spi_device_id *id);
> 
> how about leaving it at just probe and have either a call or a field
> in the device that you can look at to see if this was a new style of
> call?
> 
> >       int                     (*probe)(struct spi_device *spi);

For the record, if this is going to happen I think the
appropriate long-term solution is to have probe() take
the device_id just as it does with other busses.

Of course that involves changing *every* SPI driver...
and I'd rather not do that quite yet.