Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Sep 2012 07:41:07 +0100 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] i2c: nomadik: Add Device Tree support to the Nomadik I2C driver |
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On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:27:10PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > > In this particular case, we don't have a single board file providing a > > struct nmk_i2c_controller definition for platform data, so the best way > > to handle this IMHO is to remove the header file with the platform > > data definition, and just encode the defaults in the driver. > > Alessandro Rubini is actively working on bridging this (and > other amba_device primecells) to PCI, that is the reason why it > was recently converted to an amba_device. How is he then supposed to > get the proper parameters into the driver? Note that the PCI ID > is no help at all since the parameters depend on what is connected > to the I2C bus, not on what it itself is connected to. Isn't platform data > used in such cases?
So why can't Alessandro continue to use Platform Data in the normal way?
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