Hi Uwe, On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > This was introduced in commit > > 876989d (mfd: Add device tree probe support for mc13xxx) > > for spi and later while introducing support for i2c copied to the i2c > driver. > > Modifying driver details is very strange, for example probing an > mc13892 device (instantiated via dt) removes the driver's ability to > handle (traditionally probed) mc13783 devices in this case. > I'm not aware of any problems that make this hack necessary and if > there were some, they'd have to be fixed in the spi/i2c core, not in > a driver. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de> > --- > Hello Samuel, > > even though this qualifies as fix, I don't think it's necessary to annoy > Linus with it for 3.5. Usually there is only one pmic on each machine so > it's not grave when probing one device disables support for another. I agree, and I'm pushing this one for the next merge window.
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