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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>,
	sameo@linux.intel.com, swarren@nvidia.com, gg@slimlogic.co.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: palmas: initialise client->of_node for dummy created client
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:10:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51489C0A.309@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130319165228.GC22168@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On 03/19/2013 10:52 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:44:24AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 
>> It seems like part of the solution here is to modify the
>> i2c_client object itself so that it can directly support devices
>> that have multiple I2C addresses; instead of 1 i2c_client
>> representing 1 address, 1 i2c_client could represent a list of
>> addresses, that list being populated directly from the list
>> contained in the top-level node's reg property. That way, you
>> wouldn't need any dummy i2c_clients, which would avoid this
>> issue.
> 
> This does then make it more complicated for all users of I2C as
> they need to become aware of such devices.  Not sure that's a
> win...

Presumably the existing APIs would work identically, and additional
APIs would be added for the complex case?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-19 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19  8:58 [PATCH] mfd: palmas: initialise client->of_node for dummy created client Laxman Dewangan
2013-03-19  9:23 ` Graeme Gregory
2013-03-19 15:44 ` Stephen Warren
     [not found]   ` <20130319165228.GC22168@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2013-03-19 17:10     ` Stephen Warren [this message]
     [not found]       ` <20130319172648.GD22168@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2013-03-20 14:39         ` Laxman Dewangan
2013-04-08 12:55           ` Laxman Dewangan
2013-04-08 16:14 ` Samuel Ortiz

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