Re: [PATCH v5] gpio: pcf857x: Add OF support

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Friday 30 August 2013 01:44:50 Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Thursday 29 August 2013 20:24:32 Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 27 August 2013 19:18:55 Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > >> > The driver should support the same chip models reardless of whether
> > >> > it's used with or without DT. If an entry in the OF table has no
> > >> > corresponding entry in the I2C table I would consider that as a
> > >> > driver
> > >> > bug.
> > >> 
> > >> Linus Walleij posted a patch to support DT only probing, but too many
> > >> side-effects showed up. Some were fixable (probe regressions) and some
> > >> need more work, if feasible at all. Most prominent is that runtime
> > >> instantiation of i2c slaves currently needs an entry in the i2c table.
> > > 
> > > Linus, I'd like to get this in v3.12 if it's not too late. Could you
> > > please provide your input ?
> > 
> > Provided some input on the v4 version,
> 
> Do you mean v4 of this patch ? I can't find your reply.

Scratch that, I've found it. Sorry for the noise.

> > due to being a bit overloaded my patch queue is overloaded...
> 
> No worries. We can delay this one until v3.13.
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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart