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pmbus_do_probe doesn't use the id information provided in its second
argument, so this can be removed, which then allows using the
single-parameter i2c probe function ("probe_new") for probes.
This avoids scanning the identifier tables during probes.
Drivers which didn't use the id are converted as-is; drivers which did
are modified as follows:
* if the information in i2c_client is sufficient, that's used instead
(client->name);
* configured v. probed comparisons are performed by comparing the
configured name to the detected name, instead of the ids; this
involves strcmp but is still cheaper than comparing all the device
names when scanning the tables;
* anything else is handled by calling i2c_match_id() with the same
level of error-handling (if any) as before.
Additionally, the mismatch message in the ltc2978 driver is adjusted
so that it no longer assumes that the driver_data is an index into
ltc2978_id.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200808210004.30880-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.