Hi Dirk, On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:06:33 -0800, Dirk Brandewie wrote: > On 01/14/2011 01:48 PM, Ben Dooks wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:30:07PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > >> Hi Dirk, > >> > >> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:27:27 -0800, [email protected] wrote: > >>> From: Dirk Brandewie<[email protected]> > >>> > >>> This patch set splits i2c-designware.c core and bus specific portions > >>> in to support the Designware core being behind a PCI device. > >>> > >>> The Intel Moorsetown and Medfield SOC's are supported in the PCI > >>> portion of the driver. > >> > >> We already have the i2c-intel-mid driver for Moorsetown and Medfield. > >> Why would we need another driver? > > I was tasked with fixing a couple of bugs i2c-intel-mid.c and adding support > for > another upcoming platform. While I was coming up to speed on the driver I > "discovered" the i2c-designware.c driver. After talking with AlanC and > Shinya > it seemed like the right thing to do to merge the two drivers. The patch set > adds a parallel driver ATM moment until it get some good test. Once it gets > more test I plan on adding patches to remove i2c-intel-mid.c and update > current > i2c-designware.c driver to use the merged driver.
OK, this makes a lot of sense then. You should have explained that right away! -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
