Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Likely <> | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:53:43 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c-core: Add gpio based bus arbitration implementation |
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:32:01PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote: > >> I'm not convinced on the design of this protocol. It won't scale beyond >> 2 bus masters and it seems very specific to the design of a specific >> piece of hardware. I don't think it is mature enough to bake into the > > I ought to point out that the original patch would've baked this into > the Samsung I2C driver but I asked for it to be split out as it's > nothing to do with the controller really and I'm sure I've seen it > before.
Indeed, baking it into the driver is also the wrong abstraction.
g.
-- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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