From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Dooks Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the i2c-at91.c driver Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:24:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20080902102409.GK2716@fluff.org.uk> References: <20080831161005.GC3695@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: i2c-bounces-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: i2c-bounces-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org To: Andrew Victor Cc: David Brownell , i2c-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org, ben-linux-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:13:14PM +0200, Andrew Victor wrote: > hi Adrian, > > > David Brownell marked this driver as broken in kernel 2.6.24 due to > > hardware problems. > > > > If it depends on BROKEN it can as well be removed. > > This driver should be usable on the new AT91SAM9G20 processor. > Atmel have supposidly resolved all the hardware issues that caused > this driver to fail. As a note, it would be worth filtering Adrian's patch to remove the hardware I2C support from the machines that cannot support it to avoid people falling into the trap of using a driver that is not going to function correctly? -- Ben (ben-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes' _______________________________________________ i2c mailing list i2c-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/i2c