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[RFC internal PATCH] mfd/mc13xxx: drop modifying driver's id_table in probe

From: Shawn Guo <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-12 01:10:19
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
This was introduced in commit

	876989d (mfd: Add device tree probe support for mc13xxx)

for spi and later while introducing support for i2c copied to the i2c
driver.

Modifying driver details is very strange, for example probing an
mc13892 device (instantiated via dt) removes the driver's ability to
handle (traditionally probed) mc13783 devices in this case.
I'm not aware of any problems that make this hack necessary and if
there were some, they'd have to be fixed in the spi/i2c core, not in
a driver.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <redacted>
The code was added by me, and it turns out the change is completely
unnecessary.  So,

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <redacted>

Regards,
Shawn
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