[i2c] [PATCH]i2c: Delete deprecated scx200_i2c driver

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Apr 23 16:19:54 CEST 2007


On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:27:24AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Contrary to scx200_i2c, i2c-gpio only creates a driver, it doesn't
> instantiate devices. So you have to instantiate a platform device at the
> board-level code. That platform device must have its name set to
> "i2c-gpio", and its platform_data poiting to a properly filled struct
> i2c_gpio_platform_data (as defined in <linux/i2c-gpio.h>.) As mentioned
> earlier in this thread, you'll first have to convert the scx200 GPIO
> code to the standard GPIO infrastructure, otherwise you won't be able
> to fill the i2c_gpio_platform_data structure.

Well until someone has time and interest in doing that I would say the
scx200_i2c very much is NOT ready for removal.  It currently provides a
service nothing else does.

--
Len Sorensen



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