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i2c: Add support for device alias names

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Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.

This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
point, the old i2c driver binding scheme (driver_name/type) is still
supported.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Jean Delvare
2008-04-29 23:11:39 +02:00
committed by Jean Delvare
parent ee56d97742
commit d2653e9273
43 changed files with 146 additions and 54 deletions
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@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ I2C device drivers using this binding model work just like any other
kind of driver in Linux: they provide a probe() method to bind to
those devices, and a remove() method to unbind.
static int foo_probe(struct i2c_client *client);
static int foo_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
const struct i2c_device_id *id);
static int foo_remove(struct i2c_client *client);
Remember that the i2c_driver does not create those client handles. The