On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Yuvaraj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Doug Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yavaraj,
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Yuvaraj Kumar C D <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This RFC patch is w.r.t multimaster bus arbitration which is already
>>> being discussing in the mainline.
>>> This patch provides hooks for the i2c multimaster bus arbitration
>>> and to have the arbitration parameters.
>>
>>
>> I may have missed something in all the threads, but my recollection was that
>> the request was that this should be implemented without touching the i2c
>> core code. Your patch modifies the i2c core code.
Different i2c devices will directly talk to i2c core using i2c_transfer().
If we put this out of the i2c core,the i2c devices like tpsxxxx and etc
should be registered through the bridge/mux .
>>
>> My impression was that the best solution was to use the infrastructure in
>> place for i2c multiplexing. ...but in your case you would only multiplex
>> one thing. This was suggested by Grant Likely and seems the cleanest...
>
I agree that Grants idea was the cleanest but we may end up in change in
i2c device probe to register through mux/bridge.(for the
device's connected on that
particular bus which requires arbitration).
>
>>
>> -Doug
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