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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:24:22 -0400
From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Wolfgang Grandegger" <wg@grandegger.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] I2C: fsl-i2c: make device probing configurable via FDT
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On 7/16/08, Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > On 7/16/08, Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> 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:
> > >
> >
> > All this patch seems to be doing is removing class I2C_CLASS_HWMON via
> > a device tree flag, PROBE.

If this is implemented it shouldn't be a device tree option, it should
be a compile time option in the Kconfig system. We don't want to
pollute a platform independent device tree with Linux clutter.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com