[RFC] Rework of i2c-mpc.c - Freescale i2c driver

[Jon Smirl]

On 11/5/07, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> > Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > On 11/5/07, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> > >> Jon Smirl wrote:
> > >>> This is my first pass at reworking the Freescale i2c driver. It
> > >>> switches the driver from being a platform driver to an open firmware
> > >>> one. I've checked it out on my hardware and it is working.
> > >> We may want to hold off on this until arch/ppc goes away (or at least
> > >> all users of this driver in arch/ppc).
> > >
> > > How about renaming the old driver file and leaving it hooked to ppc?
> > > Then it would get deleted when ppc goes away. That would let work
> > > progress on the powerpc version.
> >
> > Or we could have one driver that has two probe methods.  I don't like
> > forking the driver.
>
> I agree.  This driver can and should have multiple bus bindings.

What non-of platform uses this driver?

I believe this is the last struct platform driver left for the
mpc5200. Fixing this one allows the platform bus to be removed. With a
device tree there isn't any reason to keep a platform bus, everything
should be on the of_platform bus.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com