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Jon Smirl wrote:

> It wouldn't go into the i2c driver, it would go into the mpc8xxx
> platform driver. Why is it bad to put it into the mpc8xxx platform
> driver? It is an accurate description of the mpc8xxx platform isn't
> it?

There's no need to put that code in the platform driver because U-Boot will put
the final result in the device tree!  That way, we won't need to update the
platform driver *and* U-Boot for any new SOC.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale