RE: [PATCH 2/2] i2c: s3c2410: Get the i2c bus number from alias id

From: Kukjin Kim
Date: Thu Nov 22 2012 - 14:35:39 EST


Doug Anderson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Mark Brown
> <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:27:04PM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:
> >> From: Padmavathi Venna <padma.v@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Get the i2c bus number that the device is connected to using the alias
> >> id. This makes debugging / grokking of kernel messages much easier.
> >
> > This doesn't look like a s3c2410 specific change - it's a generic device
> > tree issue. This suggests that it sohuld be implemented in the
> > framework so that all I2C controllers with DT can use it.
>
> Good suggestion. I have posted a series with the title "Add automatic
> bus number support for i2c busses with device tree". It contains the
> i2c-core patch as well as a patch removing similar code from the pxa
> i2c driver.
>
> Kukjin: please consider this patch abandoned and superseded by the new
> i2c-core patch. As Olof said, the patch for adding aliases for
> exynos4 should still be fine to apply.
>
OK, I see.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Kgene.
--
Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Senior Engineer,
SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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