[RFC] I2C: fsl-i2c: make device probing configurable via FDT
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Thu Jul 17 01:01:23 EST 2008
Jon Smirl wrote:
> Probing an i2c bus does not necessarily come to a good conclusion. The
> probes for some chips can alter the states in others. People have
> accidentally changed voltage settings and fried CPU chips. The process
> is not well defined.
I agree. We should not be implementing any feature that encourages I2C bus
probing.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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