[PATCH] Support for DS75 thermal sensor
Jean Delvare
khali at linux-fr.org
Thu Jul 17 00:29:42 EST 2008
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:18:26 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/16/08, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:10:59PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:50:15 +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> > > > Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > >
> >
> > > > Yep, as probing might not be acceptable in some cases, I makes sense to
> > > > add a property to suppress probing:
> > >
> > > It'd rather make no-probing the default if possible. My understanding
> > > is that all systems using i2c-mpc should have proper platform data.
> >
> >
> > Total ACK. From my perspective, probing should be off by default because the
> > typical use case in powerpc land is to trust data in the device tree. Add the
> > property to turn on probing, not to turn it off. Also, you'll need to
> > document the semantics of such a property. ie. what exactly does it
> > mean when the probing property is present and the spi bus node has child
> > nodes?
>
> I've found this thread now. Why can't we totally remove probing from
> i2c-mpc? These are embedded systems, not open boxes like a PC. If a
> i2c client hasn't been converted to the new model yet, convert it
> before deploying with the new i2c-mpc driver. It's not very hard to
> convert the client drivers.
I tend to agree. And the number of unconverted drivers is getting very
low these days. Only 2 RTC drivers are left, and by the end of the day,
almost all hwmon drivers will be converted as well.
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Jean Delvare
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