Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-s3c2410: Add bus arbitration implementation

[Olof Johansson]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +Olof
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Mark Brown
> <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0530, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote:
>>
>>> The arbitrator is a general purpose function which uses two GPIOs to
>>> communicate with another device to claim/release a bus. We use it to
>>> arbitrate an i2c port between the AP and the EC.
>>
>> Should this not be layerd on top of the I2C controller rather than part
>> of the controller driver?  It doesn't seem terribly controller specific.
>
> It was originally done separately but I think it was felt that this
> was overly complex. Olof can you please comment on this?

it is indeed not controller specific per se, but we are unaware of any
other platform/driver using it. So, it seemed reasonable to implement
it in the driver as long as we have only one user; if another one
comes along it's of course better to move it to the common i2c code.

At least that was my opinion at the time. I could be convinced
otherwise if someone else has strong opinions on the matter.


-Olof
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