[i2c] Is review of AT91 patch pending?

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Ronny,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:11:17 +0200, Ronny Nilsson wrote:
> > Do we really want to try fixing the i2c-at91 driver at all? David
> > Brownell and Aras Vaichas seem to believe that there is no way that
> > it can be made completely reliable due to hardware issues, and that
> > using the generic i2c-gpio driver is the way to go on these systems.
> 
> Well, it's correct that the AT91 driver never will be 100% reliable (on 
> AT91RM9200 that is). However, with my patch, support it's *WAY* more 
> reliable than with the one already in mainline. If i2c-gpio is the way 
> to go then the AT91 driver already present in the kernel should be 
> removed too.

That's what I meant, yes. Can someone please send me a patch either
marking i2c-at91 as BROKEN with some explanations in Kconfig (if it's
still worth improving), or plain removing it (if it's hopeless)?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare