From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org,
Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support.
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:44:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40808220944h6c52c68fi97f9d3174ccc5c4a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910808211939s24f1b2f0tc470aaf3831ebcca@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/08, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
>> It was over a year ago when support for i2c devices in the device tree
>> was merged.
>
> I see, the old support needed the drivers to be built-in. The newer
> code dynamically loads the correct i2c driver and set its parameters.
>
> Did the old code use anything besides compatible? It would have been
> using the older i2c system that probed for the address.
I think you're confusing binding with implementation. The binding is
the layout of data in the device tree. The implementation uses that
data. Your right that the current implementation is new, but it
replaces older implementation that uses the same binding.
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-22 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 7:10 [PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support David Miller
2008-08-21 16:32 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-21 21:21 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 21:35 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-21 21:45 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 22:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 22:27 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 22:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 22:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 22:28 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 22:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 23:14 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-21 23:32 ` David Miller
2008-08-22 1:15 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22 3:53 ` David Miller
2008-08-22 4:18 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22 4:22 ` David Miller
2008-08-22 4:29 ` Mitch Bradley
2008-08-22 4:30 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22 4:34 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22 4:37 ` David Miller
2008-08-22 5:19 ` Mitch Bradley
2008-08-22 16:00 ` Yoder Stuart
2008-08-22 16:13 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22 10:50 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22 11:06 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 23:45 ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-22 2:33 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22 2:39 ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-22 15:58 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-22 16:44 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-08-21 22:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 21:53 ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-21 21:58 ` David Miller
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