From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:25:29 +0000 Subject: [RFC] I2C: Remove the i2c_client id field Message-Id: <20050106231244.GA22174@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20041227230402.272fafd0.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20041227230402.272fafd0.khali@linux-fr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LM Sensors , LKML On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:04:02PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, hi all, > > While porting various hardware monitoring drivers to Linux 2.6 and > otherwise working on i2c drivers in 2.6, I found that the i2c_client > structure has an "id" field (of type int) which is mostly unused. I am > not exactly sure why it was introduced in the first place, and since the > i2c subsystem code was significantly reworked since, it might not > actually matter. It's fine with me if it's dropped. thanks, greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263070AbVAFXeu (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:34:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263209AbVAFXeF (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:34:05 -0500 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:51093 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263070AbVAFXco (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:32:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:12:44 -0800 From: Greg KH To: LM Sensors , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC] I2C: Remove the i2c_client id field Message-ID: <20050106231244.GA22174@kroah.com> References: <20041227230402.272fafd0.khali@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041227230402.272fafd0.khali@linux-fr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:04:02PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, hi all, > > While porting various hardware monitoring drivers to Linux 2.6 and > otherwise working on i2c drivers in 2.6, I found that the i2c_client > structure has an "id" field (of type int) which is mostly unused. I am > not exactly sure why it was introduced in the first place, and since the > i2c subsystem code was significantly reworked since, it might not > actually matter. It's fine with me if it's dropped. thanks, greg k-h