Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] media: i2c: add DS90UB913 driver

Tomi Valkeinen
2022-12-14T06:37:02Z

On 14/12/2022 08:29, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

>> wondering if the struct device of the DS90UB913 could be passed instead
>> of the port, to avoid passing the port throught
>> ds90ub9xx_platform_data.
>
> Interesting thought. That would limit the number of remote i2c busses to
> one, though. Not a problem for FPD-Link, but I wonder if that's assuming
> too much for the future users. Then again, this is an in-kernel API so
> we could extend it later if needed. So I'll try this out and see if I
> hit any issues.

Right, so the issue with this one would be that it would prevent a
single device uses. E.g. a single chip which acts as an ATR (similar to
i2c-mux chips), i.e. it contains both the main and the remote i2c busses.

Tomi