1 files changed, 5 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
index c99ebeadb558..d0175f4f8fc6 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -74,10 +74,7 @@ static int i2c_device_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
         if (driver->id_table)
                 return i2c_match_id(driver->id_table, client) != NULL;
 
-        /* new style drivers use the same kind of driver matching policy
-         * as platform devices or SPI:  compare device and driver IDs.
-         */
-        return strcmp(client->driver_name, drv->name) == 0;
+        return 0;
 }
 
 #ifdef  CONFIG_HOTPLUG
@@ -91,14 +88,9 @@ static int i2c_device_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
         if (dev->driver)
                 return 0;
 
-        if (client->driver_name[0]) {
-                if (add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=%s", client->driver_name))
-                        return -ENOMEM;
-        } else {
-                if (add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=%s%s",
-                                   I2C_MODULE_PREFIX, client->name))
-                        return -ENOMEM;
-        }
+        if (add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=%s%s",
+                           I2C_MODULE_PREFIX, client->name))
+                return -ENOMEM;
         dev_dbg(dev, "uevent\n");
         return 0;
 }
@@ -206,9 +198,7 @@ static ssize_t show_client_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *att
 static ssize_t show_modalias(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
         struct i2c_client *client = to_i2c_client(dev);
-        return client->driver_name[0]
-                ? sprintf(buf, "%s\n", client->driver_name)
-                : sprintf(buf, "%s%s\n", I2C_MODULE_PREFIX, client->name);
+        return sprintf(buf, "%s%s\n", I2C_MODULE_PREFIX, client->name);
 }
 
 static struct device_attribute i2c_dev_attrs[] = {
@@ -282,8 +272,6 @@ i2c_new_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_board_info const *info)
         client->addr = info->addr;
         client->irq = info->irq;
 
-        strlcpy(client->driver_name, info->driver_name,
-                sizeof(client->driver_name));
         strlcpy(client->name, info->type, sizeof(client->name));
 
         /* a new style driver may be bound to this device when we