[PATCH] i2c-mpc: use the cell-index property to enumerate the I2C adapters
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Fri Dec 2 08:46:18 EST 2011
Scott Wood wrote:
> How is this going to interact with other i2c buses (e.g. on a board
> FPGA) that might have a conflicting static numbering scheme? Have you
> ensured that no dynamic bus registrations (e.g. an i2c bus on a PCI
> device) can happen before the static SoC i2c buses are added?
Hmm.... You have a point there.
>> An alternative approach is to create a function like this:
>>
>> struct i2c_adapter *i2c_adapter_from_node(struct device_node *np);
>>
>> I could then just use adap->nr directly.
>
> If there isn't a way to get a "struct device" from "struct device_node",
> we should add it.
How do I do that? Scan all the struct devices until I find one where dev->of_node == np? That seems really inefficient.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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