diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c index 7a6f01ace78a..305ffad131a2 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c @@ -714,23 +714,20 @@ static int at24_probe(struct i2c_client *client) } /* - * If the 'label' property is not present for the AT24 EEPROM, - * then nvmem_config.id is initialised to NVMEM_DEVID_AUTO, - * and this will append the 'devid' to the name of the NVMEM - * device. This is purely legacy and the AT24 driver has always - * defaulted to this. However, if the 'label' property is - * present then this means that the name is specified by the - * firmware and this name should be used verbatim and so it is - * not necessary to append the 'devid'. + * We initialize nvmem_config.id to NVMEM_DEVID_AUTO even if the + * label property is set as some platform can have multiple eeproms + * with same label and we can not register each of those with same + * label. Failing to register those eeproms trigger cascade failure + * on such platform. */ + nvmem_config.id = NVMEM_DEVID_AUTO; + if (device_property_present(dev, "label")) { - nvmem_config.id = NVMEM_DEVID_NONE; err = device_property_read_string(dev, "label", &nvmem_config.name); if (err) return err; } else { - nvmem_config.id = NVMEM_DEVID_AUTO; nvmem_config.name = dev_name(dev); } |