Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] RTC: SWARM I2C board initialization

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hi Geert,

On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:37:01 +0200 (CEST), Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Oh, BTW...
> > 
> > On Wed, 7 May 2008 01:40:27 +0100 (BST), Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > > (...)
> > > 1. i2c-swarm.c -- SWARM I2C board setup, currently for the M41T80 chip on 
> > >    the bus #1 only.
> > > (...)
> > > --- linux-2.6.26-rc1-20080505.macro/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/Makefile	2004-01-29 04:57:05.000000000 +0000
> > > +++ linux-2.6.26-rc1-20080505/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/Makefile	2008-05-06 01:18:21.000000000 +0000
> > > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > > -lib-y				= setup.o rtc_xicor1241.o rtc_m41t81.o
> > > +obj-y				:= setup.o rtc_xicor1241.o rtc_m41t81.o
> > >  
> > > -lib-$(CONFIG_KGDB)		+= dbg_io.o
> > > +obj-$(CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO)	+= i2c-swarm.o
> > > +obj-$(CONFIG_KGDB)		+= dbg_io.o
> > > (...)
> > > --- linux-2.6.26-rc1-20080505.macro/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/i2c-swarm.c	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> > > +++ linux-2.6.26-rc1-20080505/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/i2c-swarm.c	2008-05-06 23:51:34.000000000 +0000
> > 
> > i2c-foo.c is consistently used for i2c bus driver themselves so far.
> > It's somewhat confusing to see you name platform code that way. It's
> > also redundant, given that the file lives in the swarm platform
> > directory. May I suggest naming this file just
> > arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/i2c.c? Other architectures (cris, arm) are doing
> > this already.
> 
> Is there any chance CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO could become tristate?
> If yes, it's problematic if you have multiple modules called i2c.ko.

No, CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO is boolean by nature, it will never become
tristate.

-- 
Jean Delvare