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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c-ibm_iic driver
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:18:22 +0100
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On Saturday 05 January 2008, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> 
> Ok. The 44x based .dts files do not list 405-iic, so would I think I 
> will add two compatibility matches, one for 405 and one for 440EP. That 
> way I do not break all the current .dts files. Everybody ok with that?
> 

Sounds good. There are obviously no other drivers that know only
about 405 but not about 440, so there is no backwards compatibility
problem. If we ever get a 450/460/470/... that we want to support
with this driver, it can simply claim to be compatible with 440 or 405
if not both.

	Arnd <><