"cell-index" vs. "index" vs. no index in I2C device nodes
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Thu Jun 5 01:24:15 EST 2008
Stefan Roese wrote:
> I'm wondering what is currently recommended in the I2C device tree nodes? The
> current IBM I2C driver (i2c-ibm_iic.c) checks "index" and most FSL dts files
> use "cell-index". Some 4xx dts files implement "cell-index" some have no
> index at all.
>
> So what should be used here. Please advise and I'll prepare a patch for it.
I just posted a patch for the FSL I2C driver to check for cell-index. I'm under
the impression that cell-index is the standard for enumerating devices in the
device tree.
My vote: any driver that currently checks for index should first check
cell-index, and any device tree that has index should add cell-index. In time,
we can remove 'index' from the device trees.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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