From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Kenneth Heitke <kheitke@codeaurora.org>
Cc: khali@linux-fr.org, ben-linux@fluff.org,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, sdharia@codeaurora.org,
Crane Cai <crane.cai@amd.com>,
Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
srinidhi kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@stericsson.com>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: Single-wire Serial Bus Interface for Qualcomm MSM chipsets
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:41:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100810214111.GA28968@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C60B8BB.2050209@codeaurora.org>
Hi!
> >>This bus driver supports the Single-wire Serial Bus Interface (SSBI)
> >>controller in the Qualcomm MSM SOCs. SSBI is not an I2C but is
> >>functionally related enough such that it is able to leaverage the I2C
> >>framework.
> >>
> >>Unlike I2C, SSBI is a point-to-point connection, and therefore there is no
> >>need to specify a slave device address. The SSBI implementation
> >>overrides the slave device address to be a device register address
> >
> >Then perhaps it should not go to drivers/i2c?
>
> I'd like to make use of the i2c framework rather than implement
> something else. Are you suggesting that the driver reside elsewhere
> (i.e. mach-msm) or that the driver not use the i2c framework?
I believe it should go elsewere at the very least. drivers/ssbi ?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-10 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-21 17:52 [PATCH] i2c: Single-wire Serial Bus Interface for Qualcomm MSM chipsets Kenneth Heitke
2010-07-23 10:18 ` Daniel Glöckner
2010-07-23 18:32 ` Kenneth Heitke
2010-07-23 20:48 ` Kenneth Heitke
2010-07-23 20:50 ` Kenneth Heitke
2010-07-28 13:26 ` Pavel Machek
2010-08-10 2:26 ` Kenneth Heitke
2010-08-10 21:41 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-09-24 22:48 ` Kenneth Heitke
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