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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: hx8357: Add SPI device ID table
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:30:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210927133055.GD4199@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210927132417.lixg3ojhnwlleht3@maple.lan>

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 02:24:17PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:

> In that case what is the point of including unconsumed driver data? Most
> DT centric drivers that included this for modalias reasons leave it
> NULL.

It's mainly there because it's generated fairly mechanically from the OF
ID table - there's no great reason for it to be there while all
instantiation is done via DT.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-27 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-22 15:10 [PATCH] backlight: hx8357: Add SPI device ID table Mark Brown
2021-09-27  9:42 ` Daniel Thompson
2021-09-27 11:47   ` Mark Brown
2021-09-27 13:24     ` Daniel Thompson
2021-09-27 13:30       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2021-10-01 14:20         ` Daniel Thompson

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