From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, i2c@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [i2c] [PATCH 3/5] powerpc: Document device nodes for I2C devices.
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:58:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <464DCD0E.9000706@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070518172711.2db7fc92@hyperion.delvare>
Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:32:11 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
>
>>(and the
>>i2c code in Linux should be fixed to allow drivers to specify multiple
>>match names).
>
>
> Back when David proposed his new-style i2c code, I had the same
> objection. But we addressed the need differently. If you look at struct
> i2c_board_info, you'll see two string fields, driver_name and type. The
> former specifies the driver name, the second specifies the exact device
> variant. For drivers which support several device variants, the
> platform code should fill both fields.
But that still requires the platform to know the driver name, rather
than matching any driver which knows about the type. This prevents the
use of OS-independent device trees (such as in Open Firmware), which
cannot know specific Linux driver names, without something hacky like a
type-to-driver table in the device tree code.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-18 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 14:38 [PATCH 3/5] powerpc: Document device nodes for I2C devices Scott Wood
2007-05-17 16:12 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-17 16:17 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-17 16:39 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-17 16:47 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-17 17:21 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-17 18:29 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-18 15:15 ` [i2c] " Jean Delvare
2007-05-18 16:24 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-18 16:35 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-18 17:10 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-18 17:17 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-18 17:33 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-18 17:55 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-20 11:53 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-21 14:57 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-19 0:04 ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-19 0:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-19 13:41 ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-19 16:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-20 14:53 ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-20 15:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-27 9:48 ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-20 11:42 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-18 20:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-17 19:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-17 19:32 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-17 19:44 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-17 21:15 ` Scott Wood
2007-05-18 15:27 ` [i2c] " Jean Delvare
2007-05-18 15:58 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-05-18 16:29 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-18 16:31 ` Jean Delvare
2007-05-18 16:56 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-18 19:00 ` David Brownell
2007-05-18 15:19 ` Jean Delvare
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