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From: Jean Delvare <khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
To: "Amaury Decrême"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] I2C: SIS964: Bus driver
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 18:07:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120803180712.1e768042@endymion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344008145-14579-1-git-send-email-amaury.decreme-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

Hi Amaury,

On Fri,  3 Aug 2012 17:35:43 +0200, Amaury Decrême wrote:
> This series of patches are a I2C bus driver for the SIS964.
> 
> 
> The SIS964 is nearly the same as SIS630 for the SMBUS :
> 	- Most of the SMBus registers (Status, Enable, Control,
> 	  Host Control, etc.) are at the same adresses + 0x60
> 	- The register count is 21 instead of 20
> 
> The SIS964 name is ambiguous as this chip isn't part of the SIS96X
> family and behaves differently.
> 
> The datasheets have been used to develop the driver based on the
> exsiting driver for I2C SIS630 . 

What is the rationale for not adding support for the new chip to
i2c-sis630 then? That would probably be a lot easier to review.

> Content of the patches:
> 	- 1/2 The driver itself
> 	- 2/2 Documentation, Kconfig, Makefile, Maintainers

This split makes little sense. Integration should come with the driver,
otherwise even build-testing is impossible.


-- 
Jean Delvare

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03 15:35 [PATCH v2 0/2] I2C: SIS964: Bus driver Amaury Decrême
2012-08-03 15:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: SIS964: Bus driver - Driver Amaury Decrême
2012-08-03 15:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] I2C: SIS964: Bus driver - other files Amaury Decrême
     [not found] ` <1344008145-14579-1-git-send-email-amaury.decreme-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-03 16:07   ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2012-08-03 16:36     ` [PATCH v2 0/2] I2C: SIS964: Bus driver Amaury Decrême
2012-08-03 17:07       ` Jean Delvare
2012-08-04  0:38         ` Amaury Decrême
2012-08-05 12:04           ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]             ` <20120805140454.3e7a9606-R0o5gVi9kd7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-05 22:03               ` Amaury Decrême
2012-08-05 22:11             ` [PATCH 0/2] I2C: SIS630: Add SIS964 support Amaury Decrême
2012-08-05 22:11               ` [PATCH 1/2] I2C: SIS630: Add SiS964 support Amaury Decrême
     [not found]               ` <1344204714-16513-1-git-send-email-amaury.decreme-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-05 22:11                 ` [PATCH 2/2] I2C: SIS630: Cosmetics Amaury Decrême

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