From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757961Ab3KHQ7d (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Nov 2013 11:59:33 -0500 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:59865 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757577Ab3KHQ7b (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Nov 2013 11:59:31 -0500 Message-ID: <527D1870.8080302@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:59:28 -0700 From: Stephen Warren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Meier CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Wolfram Sang , "linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] I2C: BCM2835: Linking platform nodes to adapter nodes References: <527CB3A1.7050808@koalo.de> In-Reply-To: <527CB3A1.7050808@koalo.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/08/2013 02:49 AM, Florian Meier wrote: > In order to find I2C devices in the device tree, the platform nodes > have to be known by the I2C core. Analogous to the i2c-omap driver > this requires setting the dev.of_node parameter of the adapter. (CCing the I2C maintainers...) > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bcm2835.c > @@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ static int bcm2835_i2c_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > strlcpy(adap->name, "bcm2835 I2C adapter", sizeof(adap->name)); > adap->algo = &bcm2835_i2c_algo; > adap->dev.parent = &pdev->dev; > + adap->dev.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node; Ah, that makes sense. Thinking about it now, I'd only ever used i2cget etc. to access I2C devices, rather than instantiating drivers from DT. That all said, I wonder if the I2C core shouldn't do something like the following inside i2c_add_adapter(): if (!adap->dev.of_node && adap->dev.parent) adap->dev.of_node = adap->dev.parent->of_node; That would save every single I2C driver from having to set up this field manually.