Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933143AbeAJLBL (ORCPT + 1 other); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 06:01:11 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f196.google.com ([209.85.223.196]:46956 "EHLO mail-io0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751319AbeAJLBJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 06:01:09 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBosyEpERU1QyIAbF/AOnLZQa/BSCravlu6TXurKVDBLEqgnFzZGjHYp3dWF+xQA2w8DJ2ZJxPTg0St5mgNKYcwQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [90.77.100.34] In-Reply-To: <20180101095342.4d4d5325@archlinux> References: <1514556006-23293-1-git-send-email-mastichi@gmail.com> <20171229175449.760e734d@archlinux> <20180101095342.4d4d5325@archlinux> From: Javier Martinez Canillas Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:01:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iio: adc: max9611: fix module auto-loading To: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Dmitry Mastykin , Andy Shevchenko , Hartmut Knaack , Lars-Peter Clausen , Peter Meerwald-Stadler , Jacopo Mondi , Dan Carpenter , Rob Herring , linux-iio , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: Hello Jonathan, On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: [snip] > > I may well be missing some subtle detail of course having spent only a few > minute looking at this! > Your understanding is correct. This change has nothing to do with module autoloading. The .probe_new callback is only used to avoid requiring an I2C device ID table since the old .probe callback has a struct i2c_device_id as a parameter and so requires a table even in OF (or ACPI) only drivers. > Jonathan Best regards, Javier