On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
[off-list ref] wrote:

I still do not understand what we are trying to fix here. Why is
"adi,adxl34x" compatible string no good anymore? If we start using exact
models and the physical device does not match do we abort probe? What is
the problem that we are solving here?

Because there's no guarantee that the driver actually supports all
"adi,adxl34<x>" with <x> = 0..9, some of which don't exist yet.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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