Re: [PATCH] power: support for Texas Instruments BQ27x00 battery managers.

[Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:28:53PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:38:17AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > 
> > > Here is the patch to show the idea. I only tested it to build, so no
> > > guaranties that it will work on the actual hardware. :-)
> > > 
> > > This patch should be separated: one patch is for I2C subsystem
> > > maintainer (drivers/i2c/* changes) and another (drivers/power/* +
> > > include/linux/bq27x00.h) is for me.
> > 
> > On my system I need to specify 2 battery chips into the platform
> > specific file as follow (file is arch/arm/mach-pxa/wr1100.c):
> > 
> > 	static struct i2c_board_info __initdata wr1100_i2c_mux_devices[] = {
> > 	        {
> > 	                I2C_BOARD_INFO("bq27200", 0x55),
> > 	        },
> > 	};
> > 		
> >         i2c_register_board_info(2, wr1100_i2c_mux_devices,
> >                                         ARRAY_SIZE(wr1100_i2c_mux_devices));
> >         i2c_register_board_info(3, wr1100_i2c_mux_devices,
> >                                         ARRAY_SIZE(wr1100_i2c_mux_devices));
> > 
> > By using your solution I cannot use this code, is that right?
> 
> Why not? I think there should be no problem.

The platform_driver_register() conflicts with i2c_add_driver(),
doesn't it? O_o

> [...]
> > if you agree, I prefere resend my
> > patch without the #ifdef and the w1 support (since I cannot test it at
> > all) but living the possibility to add that support later.
> 
> Yes, that would be also fine.

Ok, since I cannot test the w1 subsystem at all, is better I provide
only tested code. :)

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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