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    With this patch spi drivers can use standard spi_driver.id_table and · c50b748f
    Anton Vorontsov authored
    MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() mechanisms to bind against the devices.  Just like
    we do with I2C drivers.
    
    This is useful when a single driver supports several variants of devices
    but it is not possible to detect them in run-time (like non-JEDEC chips
    probing in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c), and when platform_data usage is
    overkill.
    
    This patch also makes life a lot easier on OpenFirmware platforms, since
    with OF we extensively use proper device IDs in modaliases.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
    Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
    Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
    Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
    Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
    Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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