From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: Single-wire Serial Bus Interface for Qualcomm MSM chipsets Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:41:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20100810214111.GA28968@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1279734768-8436-1-git-send-email-kheitke@codeaurora.org> <20100728132607.GA16737@ucw.cz> <4C60B8BB.2050209@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C60B8BB.2050209-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Kenneth Heitke Cc: khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org, ben-linux-elnMNo+KYs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-msm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, sdharia-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org, Crane Cai , Samuel Ortiz , Linus Walleij , Ralf Baechle , srinidhi kasagar , linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html