[PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Aug 23 01:58:07 EST 2008


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:39:40PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I see, the old support needed the drivers to be built-in. The newer
> code dynamically loads the correct i2c driver and set its parameters.
> 
> Did the old code use anything besides compatible?

Yes.

> It would have been using the older i2c system that probed for the
> address.

No, it wouldn't have.  It used glue code to generate i2c_board_info
structs.

> >  See commit id d13ae8620dfdedfa7e9ab6d1eec294adc0516065.

As shown in the above commit id. :-)

-Scott



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