Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] i2c: add ACPI support for I2C mux ports

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:49:59AM -0700, Dustin Byford wrote:
> I considered it, but I thought a default that fairly closely matches the
> old behavior was more convenient.
> 
> On the other hand, leaving it up to the controllers makes it all very
> explicit and perhaps simpler to reason about.
> 
> 
> I could be convinced either way.  But, if we move it to the controller
> drivers, which ones need the change?
> 
> grep -i acpi drivers/i2c/busses/i2c*
> 
> shows 18 drivers that might care.

I'm quite confident the designware I2C is enough for now. Intel uses it
for all SoCs with LPSS and I think AMD has the same block for their I2C
solution.

> > 	adap->dev.parent = &pdev->dev;
> > 	adap->dev.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
> > 	ACPI_COMPANION_SET(&adap->dev, ACPI_COMPANION(&pdev->dev));
> 
> Interesting, this code isn't in my tree.  I wonder why it was added,
> what code looks at the acpi companion on the i2c dev?  Before my change
> it was supposed to be NULL, and it is NULL on every other controller.

It is not in any tree. I meant that before b34bb1ee71158d5b it looked
something like that :-)