Status on 405GP i2c driver

[Matt Porter]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:23:01PM -0700, andrew may wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:05:48PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:16:01PM -0700, andrew may wrote:
> > >
> > > It looks like this question was lasted asked around Jan/Feb, but
> > > I have not seen an update on the status recently.
> > >
> > > I have looked at the i2c-2.6.3 and I am reluctant to spend any
> > > time working on it since it needs to go through some formating
> > > changes to get rid of the C++ style comments. I don't want to
> > > deal with a merge issues of doing a style change unless I know
> > > it will go in.
> >
> > I pushed a modified version of Armin's latest updated patch in.
> > I'd love to see the C-- comments go away but I'm too lazy to play
> > with it beyond testing it on my platform.  If anybody sends patches
> > that clean up some more of the ugliness then I'll push them in.
>
> I have just started to use BK and this does provide an interesting
> test. I had started to merge the stuff in steps before you did your
> push. So here are some bk export's -tpatch of what I tried. I go
> lazy on the merge of the last Makefile and I thing I screwed it up.
>
> i2c-2.6.3.patch is a patch to bring this up to the i2c 2.6.3 level.
> i2c-2.6.3-405.patch adds the 405 files in 2.6.3
> i2c-2.6.3-armin.patch is Armin's patch without the file rename.
> i2c-merge1 & 2 should be just file mv's but I didn't do it too
> well.

It's not a good idea to merge the i2c-2.6.3 support into 2_4_devel.
The idea here is to make available a 4xx IIC driver that can be used
with the current i2c infrastructure in the 2.4 kernel and can be
changed in sync with any ocp changes that are made.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
MontaVista Software, Inc.
mporter at mvista.com

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