[i2c] [patch 2.6.24-rc5-git] add i2c_new_dummy() utility

[Jean Delvare]

Hi David,

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:05:14 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> Remove further duplication between i2c core and driver model:  the
> per-adapter list of clients (adapter->clients,  client->list) and
> its lock (adapter->clist_lock) duplicate adapter->dev.children.
>  
> LIGHTLY TESTED ... goes on top of two patches from Jean's I2C queue,
> 
> 	i2c-remove-redundant-i2c_adapter-list.patch
> 	i2c-remove-redundant-i2c_driver-list.patch
> 
> Continuing in that naming scheme, this might be called
> 
> 	i2c-remove-redundant-i2c_client-list.patch
> 
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c |  189 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c  |   33 ++++----
>  include/linux/i2c.h    |    4 -
>  3 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-)

This breaks drivers/media/video/mxb.c, drivers/media/video/dpc7146.c
and drivers/media/video/tvmixer.c. These 3 drivers walk the clients
list that your patch wants to remove. I guess that we need to replace
their code by something equivalent that would walk the driver model's
children list instead of i2c-core's internal one?

-- 
Jean Delvare