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From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] I2C: fsl-i2c: make device probing configurable via FDT
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:48:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487E0A3E.80706@scram.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080716142436.GD24045@secretlab.ca>

Hi Grant,

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:47:25PM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Currently, the I2C buses are probed for HWMON I2C devices, which might
>> not be acceptable in same cases. This patch makes device probing
>> configurable through the property "probe" of the FDT I2C device node:
>>
>>       i2c@3000 {
>>            ...
>>            compatible = "fsl-i2c";
>>            probe;
>> 	    ...
>>        };
> 
> You need to add documentation to booting-without-of.txt about what the
> 'probe' property means.  Also, 'probe' is a pretty generic term being
> used in an i2c specific context.  Can you prefix it with i2c or
> something to protect the namespace?  'i2c-probe' perhaps?

In i2c-cpm, I currently use the property "linux,i2c-class" to set the
i2c class directly as documented in dts-bindings/fsl/cpm_qe/cpm/i2c.txt.

We should agree on *one* method to set the i2c class.

Thanks,
Jochen

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-16 10:47 [RFC] I2C: fsl-i2c: make device probing configurable via FDT Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-07-16 12:05 ` Jean Delvare
2008-07-16 13:03   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-07-16 12:47 ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-16 13:09   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-07-16 14:11     ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-16 14:24     ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-16 14:30       ` Grant Likely
2008-07-16 14:42         ` Jon Smirl
2008-07-16 15:01           ` Timur Tabi
2008-07-16 14:24 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-16 14:48   ` Jochen Friedrich [this message]
2008-07-16 20:20   ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-07-17 10:20     ` Is there relationship between address translation enabled and PLB timeout error? Evangelion

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