From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from zoneX.GCU-Squad.org ([194.213.125.0]:36748 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756675Ab3JPRKL (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:10:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:09:53 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Michael Krufky Cc: Antti Palosaari , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media Subject: Re: [PATCH REVIEW] e4000: convert DVB tuner to I2C driver model Message-ID: <20131016190953.7b2070b4@endymion.delvare> In-Reply-To: References: <1381876264-20342-1-git-send-email-crope@iki.fi> <20131015203305.7dd5e55a.m.chehab@samsung.com> <525EC23B.2020506@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Michael, On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:04:42 -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > YIKES!! i2c_new_probed_device() does indeed probe the hardware -- > this is unacceptable, as such an action can damage the ic. > > Is there some additional information that I'm missing that lets this > perform an attach without probe? Oh, i2c_new_probed_device() probes the device, what a surprise! :D Try, I don't know, i2c_new_device() maybe if you don't want the probe? ;) -- Jean Delvare