From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Passing I2C platform_data from device tree to i2c driver
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:54:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106185433.GA26616@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225756486.27415.258.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:54:46PM -0600, Nate Case wrote:
> Of course, I could put some code in my board specific file to parse the
> device tree properties and set pdata accordingly, but this hardly seems
> ideal. After all, the device tree bindings -> pdata translation itself
> does not have to be board-specific.
>
> Basically, I think we need to have some common code somewhere that does
> the task of populating platform_data for a specific I2C chip based on a
> device tree node -- similarly to how we register the I2C devices
> already. Is anyone working on this? Did anyone have anything else in
> mind?
It should be fairly straightforward to add an optional function pointer to
the i2c device table that turns the device tree properties into platform
data.
-Scott
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2008-11-03 23:54 Passing I2C platform_data from device tree to i2c driver Nate Case
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