[PATCH 2/2] i2c-s3c2410: Add bus arbitration implementation

[naveenkrishna.ch@gmail.com (Naveen Krishna Ch)]

On 4 December 2012 05:41, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Mark Brown
> <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:14:58PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> > It was originally done separately but I think it was felt that this
>>> > was overly complex. Olof can you please comment on this?
>>
>>> it is indeed not controller specific per se, but we are unaware of any
>>> other platform/driver using it. So, it seemed reasonable to implement
>>> it in the driver as long as we have only one user; if another one
>>> comes along it's of course better to move it to the common i2c code.
>>
>>> At least that was my opinion at the time. I could be convinced
>>> otherwise if someone else has strong opinions on the matter.
>>
>> This sort of approach is half the reason SPI ended up being so fun...  I
>> suspect if you look hard enough you'll find that this is just the first
>> time someone tried to upstream such a scheme.  This is all especially
>> true for the DT bindings, even if the implementation is driver local for
>> now it'd be better to define generic bindings.
>
> Ok, sounds like we might as well make it generic then. Naveen?
Thanks for the comments.

Sure, Will send an RFC soon.
>
>
> -Olof
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