[PATCH linux dev-4.10 v2] arm: dts: aspeed: Add IR35221 instances to dev tree

[Brad Bishop]

> On May 24, 2017, at 2:20 AM, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 3:34 AM, Christopher Bostic
>> <cbostic at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> Add IR35221 to i2c4 and i2c5 buses.
>> 
>> This is similar to the patch that I sent on the 2nd.
>> 
>> I took your patch as it adds the device at 0x71 which I did not know about.
>> 
> 
> This breaks userspace, as userspace assumes it can access the i2c
> devices through /dev/i2c-x.
> 

Joel, or anyone able to answer…

Do you know which application?  I wasn’t aware of any applications using i2c-dev...

Can we simply remove i2c-dev from the config?

thx - brad

> Do you have a ticket opened for fixing userspace?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joel