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Instantiating a device by calling i2c_new_client_device() assumes that the
device is not already instantiated. If that is not the case, it will return
an error and generate a misleading kernel log message.
i2c i2c-0: Failed to register i2c client jc42 at 0x18 (-16)
This can be reproduced by unloading the ee1004 driver and loading it again.
Avoid this by calling i2c_new_scanned_device() instead, which returns
silently if a device is already instantiated or does not exist.
Fixes: 393bd1000f ("eeprom: ee1004: add support for temperature sensor")
Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240629173716.20389-1-linux@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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