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Date:   Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:54:49 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mfd: tps80031: Remove driver
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2021, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:

> 22.10.2021 11:05, Lee Jones пишет:
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> > 
> >> Driver was upstreamed in 2013 and never got a user, remove it.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/mfd/Kconfig          |  14 -
> >>  drivers/mfd/Makefile         |   1 -
> >>  drivers/mfd/tps80031.c       | 526 -----------------------------
> >>  include/linux/mfd/tps80031.h | 637 -----------------------------------
> >>  4 files changed, 1178 deletions(-)
> >>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mfd/tps80031.c
> >>  delete mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/tps80031.h
> > 
> >> -static const struct i2c_device_id tps80031_id_table[] = {
> >> -	{ "tps80031", TPS80031 },
> >> -	{ "tps80032", TPS80032 },
> >> -	{ }
> >> -};
> > 
> > This is an I2C driver, right?
> > 
> > I was under the impression that Linux could do auto-probing on I2C
> > devices?  Such that they do not require platform code or DT in order
> > to bind?
> > 
> 
> It's I2C driver. I'm not sure about auto-probing because something
> should provide information about device to Linux. It's possible to
> detect/scan whether there is device sitting on I2C address, but there is
> no auto-discovery mechanism, AFAIK.
> 
> TPS80031 device will fail to bind to this driver because it explicitly
> requires platform data which should be NULL if device is probed solely
> by I2C ID.

This is a fair point.

I'll take the patch, thanks.

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