From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c driver for Maxim max9485 audio clock generator chip Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:38:10 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910810220938l5530cbb2y310c31e4cd3658e9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081021030205.2494.55081.stgit@terra> <20081021103607.78ffb4da@hyperion.delvare> <9e4733910810211657s5e25e391p5ca6e6f672d115c5@mail.gmail.com> <20081022083847.5216472c@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081022083847.5216472c-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: i2c-bounces-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: i2c-bounces-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: i2c-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org What you want me to do? Put in a bare .h file for the part? Bare .h files are much harder to find and reuse. It is also going to force anyone reusing this part into reading the datasheet and determining how the part works. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:57:09 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: >> > Honestly I don't see any value in this driver. There's nothing you can >> > do with it that you couldn't already do without it. >> >> I need a driver so that my device tree will bind and tell me the i2c >> address of the device. > > This is rubbish. It's perfectly fine to let the I2C device be > instantiated from the device tree without having a driver that binds to > it. The device tree and the instantiated device, not the driver, tell > you the I2C address of the device. > >> We may also build a device in the future with two of these chips. > > I fail to see how it matters. > > -- > Jean Delvare > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org _______________________________________________ i2c mailing list i2c-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/i2c