MPC8321, ethernet and i2c problems after upgrade from 2.6.25 to 2.6.27

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 11:31 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:01:55PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Secondly i2c, I have this in my platform driver:
> > static struct i2c_board_info __initdata tmcu_i2c_devices[] = {
> > 	{ I2C_BOARD_INFO("rtc-ds1307", 0x68),
> > 	  .type = "ds1337",
> > 	},
> > };
> > 
> > int __init tmcu_i2c_board_devs(void)
> > {
> > 	int ret;
> > 	ret = i2c_register_board_info(0, tmcu_i2c_devices,
> > 				      ARRAY_SIZE(tmcu_i2c_devices));
> > 	return ret;
> > }
> > arch_initcall(tmcu_i2c_board_devs);
> 
> i2c-mpc.c now registers as a dynamically-numbered bus; you need to either
> use the device tree, or call i2c_new_device().
> 
> -Scott

Thanks, but is this really so? Reading include/linux/i2c.h makes me
wonder if not the i2c_register_board_info() should still work.
Calling i2c_new_device() from an initcall() procedure does not
seem easy/possible, you need the adapter to do that. Maybe I just
missing something obvious?

 Jocke