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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:44:26 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Generic I2C and SPI register map library
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:54:25AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 06/23/11 02:25, Mark Brown wrote:

> > If you're only using SMBus then the I2C interface includes SMBus based
> > register support which should do what you want.  With the regmap API it
> > ought to work as a device with 8 bit registers and 8 bit values.

> The kicker here is that quite a few hosts only support the smbus subset.
> How should that be handled here?

For 8x8 registers we *should* end up only using the SMBus subset so it
should just work.