fpga driver on custom PPC target platform (P4080) ...

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:19:36PM -0400, Robert Sciuk wrote:
> > >
> > > I *believe* you are not supposed to create separate nodes for reading
> > > and writing.  I know that's how I2C works, but I think the I2C layer
> > > takes care of that for you.
> > >
> > > If you look at other device trees, you'll see they only have one node
> > > for any particular I2C device.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Timur ... I've fixed the tree, and I'm tracking down the
> > problems with addressing the nodes ...
> 
> Ah,  my compatible attribute was wrong:
> 
> 	Compatible = "nxp,pca9539";
> 
> 	Should have been:
> 
> 	Compatible = "nxp,pca953x";
> 
> The tree now seems to bind the i2c gpio drivers properly ... on to
> the localbus mappings!

Ah.  In that case the drivers should probably be extended to recognize
the first compatible.  "wildcard" compatible strings are a bad idea,
unfortunately there are some already in the wild, as you've seen.  We
should try to phase them out though.

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