From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
Till Harbaum <till@harbaum.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: Add possibility for user-defined (i2c-)devices for bus-drivers.
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:47:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50A30652.1020208@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121113224246.768bf734@endymion.delvare>
Hello,
Am 13.11.2012 22:42, schrieb Jean Delvare:
> Plus you don't address the main issues. Your syntax gives you no way to
> support two i2c-tiny-usb adapters with different chips at a specific
> address. The sysfs interface supports such a setup. Also instantiating
> the wrong devices is worse than instating a device that doesn't exist
> at all. So the use of i2c_new_probed_device() here will randomly help
> in a limited number of cases and randomly be problematic in others.
> Hard to justify...
As you seem to have a solution for multiple devices of the same type by
using sysfs, how to do you decide which one to use? You might be able to
probe just one, but my simple mind currently doesn't come up with a
solution which device one has to probe. Just because I'm curious... ;)
Regards,
Alexander
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-14 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-13 18:06 [PATCH 1/2] i2c: Add possibility for user-defined (i2c-)devices for bus-drivers Alexander Holler
2012-11-13 18:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] i2c: i2c-tiny-usb: Add parameter for optional user-defined devices Alexander Holler
[not found] ` <1352829968-4908-1-git-send-email-holler-SXC+2es9fhnfWeYVQQPykw@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-13 18:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] i2c: Add possibility for user-defined (i2c-)devices for bus-drivers Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20121113195533.6db71716-R0o5gVi9kd7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-13 20:23 ` Alexander Holler
2012-11-13 20:52 ` [PATCH] i2c: i2c-tiny-usb: Add parameter for optional i2c-devices Alexander Holler
[not found] ` <1352839940-7559-1-git-send-email-holler-SXC+2es9fhnfWeYVQQPykw@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-13 22:42 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20121113224251.20b52f34-38n7/U1jhRXW96NNrWNlrekiAK3p4hvP@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-13 23:41 ` Alexander Holler
[not found] ` <50A2AC28.7050304-SXC+2es9fhnfWeYVQQPykw@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-13 21:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] i2c: Add possibility for user-defined (i2c-)devices for bus-drivers Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20121113220835.111a178a-R0o5gVi9kd7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-13 21:24 ` Alexander Holler
[not found] ` <50A2BAA2.6090009-SXC+2es9fhnfWeYVQQPykw@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-13 21:42 ` Jean Delvare
2012-11-13 23:38 ` Alexander Holler
[not found] ` <50A2DA0C.3090507-SXC+2es9fhnfWeYVQQPykw@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-14 9:40 ` Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20121114104050.79df8cd9-R0o5gVi9kd7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-14 12:38 ` Alexander Holler
[not found] ` <50A390CC.9000208-SXC+2es9fhnfWeYVQQPykw@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-14 19:22 ` till-RcHadlBFbzVAfugRpC6u6w
2012-11-14 23:34 ` Alexander Holler
[not found] ` <1639554.ZUOmHr6Yka@lxtiha>
2012-11-15 11:44 ` Alexander Holler
2012-11-19 13:38 ` Alexander Holler
2012-11-23 14:35 ` Alexander Holler
2012-11-14 2:47 ` Alexander Holler [this message]
[not found] ` <50A30652.1020208-SXC+2es9fhnfWeYVQQPykw@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-14 9:08 ` Alexander Holler
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