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From: w.sang@pengutronix.de (Wolfram Sang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: i2c-imx: Autoprobe of eeproms
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:28:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100213072823.GA3220@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B75D317.7040801@vmlinux.org>

Hi Mattias,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:15:51PM +0100, Mattias Walstrom wrote:

> I have tried to get autoprobe of eeproms to work on a custom freescale
> mx27-board, and i found out that the i2c-imx driver was missing the
> following, is there a reason for this, most other i2c-bus drivers seems
> to have it?

Yes. Autoprobing on I2C is not favoured (can have side-effects) with embedded
platforms, so the proper way is to declare the eeprom as board-info or
instantiate it at runtime.

Check Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices for further info.

Regards,

   Wolfram

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Wolfram Sang                |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-13  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-12 22:15 i2c-imx: Autoprobe of eeproms Mattias Walstrom
2010-02-13  7:28 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2010-02-13 10:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-02-14 21:18 ` Ben Dooks

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