Hi, On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:30:03AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > >>>bma250 already has devicetree support. It is used in Gemei G9 > >>>tablet (sun4i-gemei-g9.dts). > >> > >>Yes I've seen that, but does it actually work? I've not tried but > >>I do not see any compatible string in the actual bma250 code in > >>the kernel, so I believe that this part of the sun4i-gemei-g9.dts > >>file does not work ? > > > >It worked (even without IRQs) when I submitted the patch. Driver > >itself is under iio/accel/bma180.c > > That is really weird, because: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/iio/accel/bma180.c > > Does not have an of_match_table ... ??
Not really, when using DT, i2c will set the i2c_client name to the device part of the compatible [1] [2], and then if the of_device_id lookup fails, will fallback to matching the i2c_client name to the i2c_device_id [3]. Which in our case matches. Maxime [1] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c#L1281 [2] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c#L969 [3] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c#L461 -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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