From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
To: Kieran Bingham <kieran@ksquared.org.uk>
Cc: "Wolfram Sang" <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-i3c@lists.infradead.org,
"Niklas Söderlund" <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>,
"Luca Ceresoli" <luca@lucaceresoli.net>,
"Jacopo Mondi" <jacopo@jmondi.org>,
"Laurent Pinchart" <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
"Vladimir Zapolskiy" <vz@mleia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] i2c: allow DT nodes without 'compatible'
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:46:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200415094656.GE1141@ninjato> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74aa4084-588f-1b6f-2256-44588c48edf6@bingham.xyz>
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> > Sometimes, we have unknown devices in a system and still want to block
> > their address. For that, we allow DT nodes with only a 'reg' property.
> > These devices will be bound to the "dummy" driver but with the name
> > "reserved". That way, we can distinguish them and even hand them over to
> > the "dummy" driver later when they are really requested using
> > i2c_new_ancillary_device().
>
> Oh how I long to be able to give these 'identifiable names' within the
> system, but that will probably mess up all the driver matching and
> binding, so would be quite tricky perhaps.
I haven't found a way yet to use 'name' to give more meaningful
descriptions to dummies. My best bet so far is to use additional links
in sysfs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-15 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-18 15:00 [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] i2c: of: reserve unknown and ancillary addresses Wolfram Sang
2020-03-18 15:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/6] i2c: use DEFINE for the dummy driver name Wolfram Sang
2020-04-15 8:09 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-03-18 15:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] i2c: allow DT nodes without 'compatible' Wolfram Sang
2020-04-10 13:49 ` Luca Ceresoli
2020-04-15 7:59 ` Wolfram Sang
2020-04-15 8:07 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-04-15 8:16 ` Wolfram Sang
2020-04-15 8:38 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-04-16 14:53 ` Luca Ceresoli
2020-04-15 8:48 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-04-15 9:46 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2020-03-18 15:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/6] i2c: of: remove superfluous parameter from exported function Wolfram Sang
2020-03-19 12:41 ` Boris Brezillon
2020-04-15 8:13 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-03-18 15:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] i2c: of: error message unification Wolfram Sang
2020-04-10 17:02 ` Luca Ceresoli
2020-04-15 8:17 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-04-15 8:50 ` Kieran Bingham
2020-03-18 15:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/6] i2c: of: mark a whole array of regs as reserved Wolfram Sang
2020-04-10 17:05 ` Luca Ceresoli
2020-04-13 9:55 ` Luca Ceresoli
2020-04-15 8:10 ` Wolfram Sang
2020-04-15 10:07 ` Luca Ceresoli
2020-03-18 15:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] i2c: core: hand over reserved devices when requesting ancillary addresses Wolfram Sang
2020-04-15 10:07 ` Luca Ceresoli
2020-03-28 3:50 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] i2c: of: reserve unknown and " Wolfram Sang
2020-04-15 8:27 ` Wolfram Sang
2020-04-15 8:35 ` Kieran Bingham
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