Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] RTC: SWARM I2C board initialization

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Oh, BTW...
> 
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 01:40:27 +0100 (BST), Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > (...)
> > 1. i2c-swarm.c -- SWARM I2C board setup, currently for the M41T80 chip on 
> >    the bus #1 only.
> > (...)
> > --- linux-2.6.26-rc1-20080505.macro/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/Makefile	2004-01-29 04:57:05.000000000 +0000
> > +++ linux-2.6.26-rc1-20080505/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/Makefile	2008-05-06 01:18:21.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > -lib-y				= setup.o rtc_xicor1241.o rtc_m41t81.o
> > +obj-y				:= setup.o rtc_xicor1241.o rtc_m41t81.o
> >  
> > -lib-$(CONFIG_KGDB)		+= dbg_io.o
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO)	+= i2c-swarm.o
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_KGDB)		+= dbg_io.o
> > (...)
> > --- linux-2.6.26-rc1-20080505.macro/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/i2c-swarm.c	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> > +++ linux-2.6.26-rc1-20080505/arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/i2c-swarm.c	2008-05-06 23:51:34.000000000 +0000
> 
> i2c-foo.c is consistently used for i2c bus driver themselves so far.
> It's somewhat confusing to see you name platform code that way. It's
> also redundant, given that the file lives in the swarm platform
> directory. May I suggest naming this file just
> arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/i2c.c? Other architectures (cris, arm) are doing
> this already.

Is there any chance CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO could become tristate?
If yes, it's problematic if you have multiple modules called i2c.ko.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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