From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux I2C <linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: Drop legacy muxing pseudo-drivers
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:21:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230927222144.5ca56d97@endymion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZRSGHm8t3ul/s07a@shikoro>
On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:44:30 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 01:37:25PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > The i2c-amd756-s4882 and i2c-nforce2-s4985 muxing pseudo-drivers were
> > written at a time when the i2c core did not support muxing. They are
> > essentially board-specific hacks. If we had to add support for these
> > boards today, we would implement it in a completely different way.
> >
> > These Tyan server boards are 18 years old by now, so I very much doubt
> > any of these is still running today. So let's just drop this clumsy
> > code. If anyone really still needs this support and complains, I'll
> > rewrite it in a proper way on top of i2c-mux.
> >
> > This also fixes the following warnings:
> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-amd756.c:286:20: warning: symbol 'amd756_smbus' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nforce2.c:123:20: warning: symbol 'nforce2_smbus' was not declared. Should it be static?
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
>
> What is this based on? Doesn't apply to 6.6-rc3 here?
6.5.5. I'll rebase on top of 6.6-rc3 tomorrow, sorry.
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-26 11:37 [PATCH] i2c: Drop legacy muxing pseudo-drivers Jean Delvare
2023-09-26 16:33 ` Nick Desaulniers
2023-09-26 21:27 ` Andi Shyti
2023-09-27 6:20 ` Wolfram Sang
2023-09-27 8:24 ` Jean Delvare
2023-09-27 19:44 ` Wolfram Sang
2023-09-27 20:21 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
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