On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 12:58:57PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 02:16:49PM -0500, Alan Tull wrote: >> > Add new device tree binding for max1619. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Alan Tull <at...@kernel.org> >> >> Technically that should already work, without explicit binding, >> or did the i2c core change lately ? > > There was some work in that direction IIRC.
Yes, after Guenter replied I tried it without this patch and it worked. i2c drivers can have a 'detect' function that can check part id, etc. If detection succeeds, it will fill in the device name in i2c_board_info->type and the i2c-core will enumerate using that. Alan > > We don't really want to rely on that behavior and should have DT match > strings. > > Rob
