Re: [PATCH 5.10 005/147] i3c: remove i2c board info from i2c_dev_desc

Ben Hutchings
2026-03-17T13:53:37Z

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On Sat, 2026-02-28 at 13:15 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Jamie Iles <quic_jiles@quicinc.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 31b9887c7258ca47d9c665a80f19f006c86756b1 ]
>
> I2C board info is only required during adapter setup so there is no
> requirement to keeping a pointer to it once running. To support dynamic
> device addition we can't rely on board info - user-space creation
> through sysfs won't have a boardinfo.
[...]

This was broken and needs commit 6cbf8b38dfe3 "i3c: fix uninitialized
variable use in i2c setup" as a follow-up.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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