[PATCH 3/3] dt: Describe modalias resolution in i2c/trivial-devices.txt
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From: Ben Gamari <hidden>
Date: 2013-12-08 21:02:18
Subsystem:
i2c subsystem host drivers, open firmware and flattened device tree bindings, the rest · Maintainers:
Andi Shyti, Rob Herring, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Conor Dooley, Linus Torvalds
To someone with little device-tree experience these details aren't at all obvious. Make the fact that the manufacturer prefix is dropped explicit. Signed-off-by: Ben Gamari <redacted> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
index c475c3a..59bbb07 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/trivial-devices.txt@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ This is a list of trivial i2c devices that have simple device tree bindings, consisting only of a compatible field, an address and -possibly an interrupt line. +possibly an interrupt line. The compatible field is used by lookup +the modalias for the driver which will handle the device. A +manufacturer prefix (separated by a comma) will be stripped off during +this lookup. If a device needs more specific bindings, such as properties to describe some aspect of it, there needs to be a specific binding
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