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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 11:58:19 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] IIO: st_accel_i2c.c: Use probe_new() instead of probe()
To:     Nikolaus Voss <nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de>
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On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Nikolaus Voss
<nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 9:06 AM, Nikolaus Voss
>> <nikolaus.voss@loewensteinmedical.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> struct i2c_device_id argument of probe() is not used, so use probe_new()
>>> instead.
>>>
>>
>> This makes...
>>
>>>  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, st_accel_id_table);
>>
>>
>> ...this table obsolete IIUC. At least that's what I did when switched
>> to ->probe_new() in some drivers.
>>
>> If I'm mistaken (again? :-) ) I would hear from someone to point me
>> how it can be used after a switch.
>
>
> It is still used by the i2c-core in i2c_device_match() if DT and ACPI
> matching fails.

> And it is used to create the corresponding modaliases for
> driver loading.

My question is "How?!"
I don't really see any points to match against it after switching to
->probe_new().

Could you point me to the code path in i2c (or OF?) core for that?

> So it is necessary for non-DT/ non-ACPI systems and used for
> fallback matching if no match is found in of_device_ids.


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko