Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:29:18 +0800 | From | Feng Tang <> | Subject | Re: i2c-eg20t: regression since i2c_add_numbered_adapter change |
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:30:35 +0200 Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I just noticed the 3.4 linux kernel fails to sucessfully probe the i2c-eg20t > driver. I returns with EBUSY error. It worked on the 3.0 kernel. To my view it > is caused the commit 07e8a51ff68353e01d795cceafbac9f54c49132b ( i2c-eg20t: use > i2c_add_numbered_adapter to get a fixed bus number). > The reason it actually fails is that the i2c-isch driver is registered > beforehand which gets bus number 0. But this one is the bus number the eg20t > driver wants to register.
Make sense.
> A possibility is that if i2c_add_numbered_adapter failed with EBUSY just use > i2c_add_adapter to get at least the driver working, but with a non-fixed bus > number. Opinions?
Or can we give it a fixed offset, like let the i2c_eg20t controller bus number start with 4? I don't expect there will be more than 4 other i2c controllers on EG20T compatible platforms.
Thanks, Feng
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