From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: Status of multiplexed i2c support Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:13:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20100810151351.GA19251@ericsson.com> References: <20100721042922.GA30524@ericsson.com> <20100810142938.5a2e1bd1@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100810142938.5a2e1bd1-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: "linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Michael Lawnick , Rodolfo Giometti List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 08:29:38AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > Sorry for the late answer, I am just returning from vacation. > Hi Jean, I figured that much... > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:29:22 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > what is the current status of i2c mux support, specifically support for pca945x ? > > (Assuming this is a typo and you really meant pca954x.) > obviously .. > Support is ready for public consumption and will be merged upstream > very soon now (i.e. before 2.6.36-rc1.) The PCA954x family will be the > first supported one, support will be merged together with core > multiplexing support. > Yes, I found your updated patchset a couple of hours after I sent my e-mail. Since then, I backported the code to 2.6.32 (which is what we are currently using here). > Note that I don't take much credit for this, all the hard work was done > by Rodolfo Giometti and Michael Lawnick (Cc'd), which were additionally > kind enough to patiently wait for someone (that is me) to review their > work. Excellent job, by everyone involved. I think this is a prime example of how to introduce new functionality into the kernel. Guenter