On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 04:37:42PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 07:52:44AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:47:43 +0300, Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hmm. I think it would be better to avoid calling the probe > > > in first place. git diff made the attached patch look more > > > confusing than it actually is. Personally I'd eliminate > > > all ifdefs from those i2c_board_info structs. > > > I did the same thing before, but then we're gonna start adding > > several i2c_board_info for different hw. I mean, we should > > just reuse the code and the driver should know when the device > > is not present and stop probing without any problems to the rest > > of the system. > > If the different hw has different devices on the i2c bus, then > different i2c_board_info struct should be provided. IIRC i2c_board_info > is expected to provide a accurate picture of what i2c devices is > connected to the bus. This has been used as a argument to remove detection > code from .probe functions. > > To all the confused i2c list readers, the topic is about should we > split n800_i2c_board_info_2 [0] to n800 and n810 specific structs[1] > or make the lm8323 configure to err out earlier[2].
Split them into a common and then machine specfic structures, you are allowed to register more than one board per bus. > [0] > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-n800.c;h=ae85c2c60534820856c8bb0e019be29f2375470b;hb=HEAD#l645 > [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/9562 > [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/9522 > > > "rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups > > _______________________________________________ > i2c mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/i2c -- Ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes' _______________________________________________ i2c mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/i2c
