From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6 v2] ARM: shmobile: r8a7778: cleanup registration of i2c
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:34:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130730043423.GF5595@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871u6ldb9z.wl%kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 08:09:23PM -0700, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> > > > > Anyway, I exchange my mind
> > > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg21582.html
> > > >
> > > > It's apparent that you changed your mind but it's not clear what was the
> > > > reasoning behind this.
> > >
> > > I and Magnus are explaining about it on cleanup patchset
> >
> > Sorry, I don't quite understand your statement above.
>
> Maybe my English issue.
>
> The reason why these cleanup patches don't care about pin settings
> but register non-platform data driver is that
> default pin settings are very safety (input direction)
> (and the device can't do something if board exchanges pin settings)
> (Sergei's USB/I2C patches were same concept ?)
> And it can be used for DT feature work.
>
> Then, I understood above and exchanged my mind
> that we can register all non-platform driver on SoC code.
>
> This is the back-ground.
> Is it enough for you ?
Yes thanks, that is enough.
> Please let me know if you need more explain/background
I do have one more question, which I forgot to ask earlier.
I notice that you are now registering i2c devices in
r8a7778_add_dt_devices(). Which I believe means that they
will be registered in C when bockw-reference is used.
Is that intentional?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-30 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-26 7:35 [PATCH 4/6 v2] ARM: shmobile: r8a7778: cleanup registration of i2c Kuninori Morimoto
2013-07-26 13:37 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-07-29 0:36 ` Kuninori Morimoto
2013-07-29 12:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-07-30 0:24 ` Kuninori Morimoto
2013-07-30 2:35 ` Simon Horman
2013-07-30 3:09 ` Kuninori Morimoto
2013-07-30 4:34 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2013-07-30 4:54 ` Kuninori Morimoto
2013-07-30 5:29 ` Simon Horman
2013-07-30 5:32 ` Kuninori Morimoto
2013-07-30 7:01 ` Kuninori Morimoto
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