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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Robert Sciuk <robert.sciuk@exfo.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Tabi Timur-B04825 <B04825@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: fpga driver on custom PPC target platform (P4080) ...
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 11:40:50 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111105004050.GA1384@truffala.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2DD52030B5146141BEB762A11AE97C4C0100C8C1@SPQCEXC05.exfo.com>

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:19:36PM -0400, Robert Sciuk wrote:
> > >
> > > I *believe* you are not supposed to create separate nodes for reading
> > > and writing.  I know that's how I2C works, but I think the I2C layer
> > > takes care of that for you.
> > >
> > > If you look at other device trees, you'll see they only have one node
> > > for any particular I2C device.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Timur ... I've fixed the tree, and I'm tracking down the
> > problems with addressing the nodes ...
> 
> Ah,  my compatible attribute was wrong:
> 
> 	Compatible = "nxp,pca9539";
> 
> 	Should have been:
> 
> 	Compatible = "nxp,pca953x";
> 
> The tree now seems to bind the i2c gpio drivers properly ... on to
> the localbus mappings!

Ah.  In that case the drivers should probably be extended to recognize
the first compatible.  "wildcard" compatible strings are a bad idea,
unfortunately there are some already in the wild, as you've seen.  We
should try to phase them out though.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-05  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03 22:12 fpga driver on custom PPC target platform (P4080) Robert Sciuk
2011-11-04 16:36 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-11-04 16:42   ` Robert Sciuk
2011-11-04 18:19   ` Robert Sciuk
2011-11-05  0:40     ` David Gibson [this message]
2011-11-07 18:48       ` Robert Sciuk
2011-11-07 20:09       ` Robert Sciuk
2011-11-07 21:31         ` Mitch Bradley
2011-11-07 21:50           ` Robert Sciuk
2011-11-07 22:14         ` Scott Wood
2011-11-07 23:07           ` Robert Sciuk
2011-11-07 23:29           ` Robert Sciuk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-02 22:43 Robert Sciuk
2011-11-03 21:22 ` Segher Boessenkool

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