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
--
Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang |
Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20100213/0ed54079/attachment.sig>
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100213072823.GA3220@pengutronix.de \
--to=w.sang@pengutronix.de \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).