[i2c] [patch 5/8] OSIRIS: Add i2c device list to Simtec Osiris

Jean Delvare khali at linux-fr.org
Mon Jun 2 08:31:42 CEST 2008


On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:35:09 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:21:16AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > The "eeprom" driver is not a new-style i2c driver, so it won't be able
> > to bind to device. Having it declared here even prevents the legacy
> > binding to happen, because the address will be busy. So you should
> > either not list the eeprom here and let the legacy eeprom driver pick
> > it later, or add a new-style mode to the eeprom driver - but then you
> > probably want to use David Brownell and Wolfram Sang's at24 driver
> > instead, it's much better.
> 
> Thanks, I'll change this to at94. Is this driver going to be included
> on the next kernel window?

at24, not at94 ;) I hope so. I've reviewed the driver and am now
waiting for Wolfram to send an updated version. The code looked good so
if I receive something soon enough, there's really no reason why it
wouldn't make it in kernel 2.6.27.

-- 
Jean Delvare



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