Re: [PATCH 1/7] spi: Add support for device table matching

On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Ben Dooks wrote:

quoted

 struct spi_driver {
+     const struct spi_device_id *id_table;
+     int                     (*probe_id)(struct spi_device *spi,
+                                         const struct spi_device_id *id);

how about leaving it at just probe and have either a call or a field
in the device that you can look at to see if this was a new style of
call?

quoted

      int                     (*probe)(struct spi_device *spi);

For the record, if this is going to happen I think the
appropriate long-term solution is to have probe() take
the device_id just as it does with other busses.

Of course that involves changing *every* SPI driver...
and I'd rather not do that quite yet.