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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support.
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:58:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080822155807.GD13422@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910808211939s24f1b2f0tc470aaf3831ebcca@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:39:40PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I see, the old support needed the drivers to be built-in. The newer
> code dynamically loads the correct i2c driver and set its parameters.
> 
> Did the old code use anything besides compatible?

Yes.

> It would have been using the older i2c system that probed for the
> address.

No, it wouldn't have.  It used glue code to generate i2c_board_info
structs.

> >  See commit id d13ae8620dfdedfa7e9ab6d1eec294adc0516065.

As shown in the above commit id. :-)

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-22 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080821.001012.265401427.davem@davemloft.net>
     [not found] ` <20080821163256.GC15669@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>
     [not found]   ` <20080821.142134.127315039.davem@davemloft.net>
     [not found]     ` <48ADDF86.2040200@freescale.com>
2008-08-21 23:14       ` [PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support Grant Likely
2008-08-21 23:32         ` David Miller
2008-08-22  1:15           ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22  3:53             ` David Miller
2008-08-22  4:18               ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22  4:22                 ` David Miller
2008-08-22  4:29                   ` Mitch Bradley
2008-08-22  4:30                     ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22  4:34                       ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22  4:37                         ` David Miller
2008-08-22  5:19                           ` Mitch Bradley
2008-08-22 16:00                             ` Yoder Stuart
2008-08-22 16:13                               ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22 10:50               ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22 11:06                 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 23:45         ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-22  2:33           ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22  2:39             ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-22 15:58               ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-08-22 16:44               ` Grant Likely

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