From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: w.sang@pengutronix.de (Wolfram Sang) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:28:23 +0100 Subject: i2c-imx: Autoprobe of eeproms In-Reply-To: <4B75D317.7040801@vmlinux.org> References: <4B75D317.7040801@vmlinux.org> Message-ID: <20100213072823.GA3220@pengutronix.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.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: