Re: [PATCH] 2.6 I2C epson 8564 RTC chip

[stefan.eletzhofer@eletztrick.de]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:59:40PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 13:02, stefan.eletzhofer@eletztrick.de wrote:
> > This driver only does the low-level I2C stuff, the rtc misc device
> > driver is a separate driver module which I will send a patch for soon.
> 
> By the way -- I notice you have said you need i2c_get_client for your
> RTC driver to locate the i2c chip it wants to work with. 

Correct. I'll send a patch which re-adds this call to 2.6.6-rcx.

> 
> Just a thought -- perhaps it would make sense to reverse the roles and
> for the rtc driver to export a 'register_rtc_device' type call which the
> specific i2c chip driver could then call to hook itself up to /dev/rtc

The problem with this approach is IHMO that you need the i2c_client struct in
I2C chrip driver as well (to call the i2c access primitives). You'd need to
store the pointer to the client somewhere in the driver itself. What if we have
more than one client per driver?

IMHO the call i2c_get_client() is nice and clean. One could wish another call like
  int i2c_command( struct i2c_client *c, long cmd, void *arg );
whcih does a
  client->driver->command( client, cmd, arg );
internally.

> 
> Ian.
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