Re: [PATCH] i2c: i801: Register optional lis3lv02d i2c device on Dell machines

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Jan 04 2017 - 01:37:48 EST


On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 10:29:34PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> On Jan 03 2017 or thereabouts, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > Yet another option: can we add a new flag to i2c_board_info controlling
> > whether we want to enable/disable wiring up host notify interrupt?
>
> That should be fairly easy to implement. For now, given that only Elan
> and Synaptics are the one in need for Host Notify, it could be better to
> request the Host Notify IRQ instead of disabling it unconditionally
> (which would make the current yet 8 years old lis3lv02d driver happy
> again).

I like that we have it done in i2c core instead of having drivers
implementing it individually. Since you are saying that handling host
notify is property of the slave/driver maybe we should be adding a flag
to the *i2c_driver* structure to let i2c core that we want to have host
notify mapped as interrupt if "native" interrupt is not supplied by the
platform code?

Thanks.

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Dmitry