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SubjectRe: i2c-eg20t: regression since i2c_add_numbered_adapter change
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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