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Subject: Re: "cell-index" vs. "index" vs. no index in I2C device nodes
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 08:21 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> We could certainly add a busname field to struct i2c_devinfo and
> implement i2c_register_board_info_by_name() if it seems to be worth
> the
> extra code and memory. I am open to the idea if it solves a problem
> with no other clean solution.
> 
> [1] radeonfb is notoriously bad at that ;)

radeonfb is notoriously bad at many things :-)

Ben.