[RFC][PATCH] I2C driver

[Stefan Roese]

On Thursday 21 August 2008, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:06:24 -0400
>
> "Steven A. Falco" <sfalco at harris.com> wrote:
> > However, while the i2c-ibm_of.c driver works with the sequoia .dts,
> > i2c-ibm_iic.c does not, because it is looking for an "index" property,
> > which is not in the .dts file.  I added one:
>
> I don't know where i2c-ibm_of.c came from....

It's a temporary DENX version for arch/powerpc which we created, since it took 
too long to get something accepted upstream (I remember endless discussions 
about index properties...). And we needed something functional quite a while 
ago.

> but in the 2.6.26 kernel 
> you need the index property.
>
> The 2.6.27 kernel has a fully OF aware i2c-ibm_iic driver. You do
> not need the index. And it will walk the device tree and setup the
> devices for you.

Yes. Since 2.6.27 the "original" IBM I2C driver should be enough. We will drop 
our local special version soon.

Best regards,
Stefan

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