From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@movial.fi>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com,
Linux I2C <i2c@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [i2c] SFC driver implements its own I2C support
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:03:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <482C2690.1000004@movial.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080514215818.GH28241@solarflare.com>
Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> Using the standard I2C implementation will give you access to all the
>> i2c debugging tools, user-space access to the I2C bus if needed, and
>> compatibility with all the Linux i2c device drivers, including hardware
>> monitoring and GPIO drivers which apparently the SFC hardware uses.
>>
>
> Right. But the most immediate requirement is that we be able to
> configure I2C devices from the sfc driver. Most of our reference
> designs require that as part of their initialisation.
That's how many DVB adapter drivers already work. Although
I'm not sure which one would be cleanest and simplest example.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-15 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-13 8:33 SFC driver implements its own I2C support Jean Delvare
2008-05-14 21:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-15 9:24 ` Jean Delvare
2008-05-15 12:04 ` Michael Brown
2008-05-15 12:39 ` Jean Delvare
2008-05-15 12:58 ` [i2c] " Wolfram Sang
[not found] ` <20080515143954.15bc4170-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-15 14:49 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-15 14:52 ` Michael Brown
2008-05-15 12:03 ` Riku Voipio [this message]
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