From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lee.jones@linaro.org (Lee Jones) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 07:41:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] i2c: nomadik: Add Device Tree support to the Nomadik I2C driver In-Reply-To: References: <20120831122323.GC5962@gmail.com> <5044C82E.5060207@gmail.com> <20120903152012.GH31163@gmail.com> <201209041428.21409.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20120905064106.GA4233@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:27:10PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > In this particular case, we don't have a single board file providing a > > struct nmk_i2c_controller definition for platform data, so the best way > > to handle this IMHO is to remove the header file with the platform > > data definition, and just encode the defaults in the driver. > > Alessandro Rubini is actively working on bridging this (and > other amba_device primecells) to PCI, that is the reason why it > was recently converted to an amba_device. How is he then supposed to > get the proper parameters into the driver? Note that the PCI ID > is no help at all since the parameters depend on what is connected > to the I2C bus, not on what it itself is connected to. Isn't platform data > used in such cases? So why can't Alessandro continue to use Platform Data in the normal way? -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org ? Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog