From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: benh@kernel.crashing.org (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:35:24 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] i2c: let the core register devices from devicetree In-Reply-To: <20120614091434.GB14419@pengutronix.de> References: <1339622215-4733-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> <1339623217.9220.119.camel@pasglop> <20120614091434.GB14419@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: <1339673724.9220.164.camel@pasglop> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 11:14 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 07:33:37AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:12 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > Currently, every driver has to do it on its own, but it should be done > > > in the core, like we already do with board_info structs. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang > > > --- > > > > > > Based on v3.5-rc2. Only build tested, I don't have a OF based device > > > around at the moment. > > > > Won't that conflict with i2c-powermac doing it its own way ? > > Yup :( > > I assume there is no chance that the powermac devicetree can be > pre-processed to be compatible with of_i2c_register_devices? That would be nasty and need a lot of testing on all sort of machines I don't have direct access to. Maybe we can set a flag somewhere to indicate to the core not to run the default probing on that controller ? Cheers, Ben.