i2c bit bashing adapter number allocation (fwd)

[Mark D. Studebaker]

I checked your ID into i2c CVS.
It will eventually get submitted to the kernel or feel free to include it in one of your patches.
mds

Frodo Looijaard wrote:
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> To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>, simon at tk.uni-linz.ac.at,
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> Subject: Re: i2c bit bashing adapter number allocation
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> After lots of digging, I found a lead to the answer to where to find an 
> answer in the place i should have looked but didn't remember - the 
> MAINTAINERS file.  
> 
> Simon, Frodo, do you have an opinion on where i should submit the following:
> 
> On Tuesday 28 January 2003 17:34, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:22:17PM -0600, Cam Mayor wrote:
>>
>>>In the file ./include/linux/i2c-id.h
>>>there is a list of bit-algorithm adapters and their associated sequential
>>>numbers.
>>>eg.
>>>	#define I2C_HW_B_OMAHA  0x14    /* Omaha I2C interface                 
>>>*/
>>>
>>>Are the numbers allocated in a first-come-first-serve (or
>>>first-to-propagate-patch-gets-it), or are they allocated in a more
>>>bureaucratic way?  I see nothing listed in ./Documentation/i2c about
>>>this, and i wish to add our hardware to the list.
>>
>>I have no idea; there appears to be no documented method for these IDs.
> 
> 
> I suspect this device will only be used for ARM linux, as it is bit-bashed 
> from an ARM processor.  However, i don't want to have to continually be 
> patching the device number.
> 
> Russell, it looks like at least two of these allocations are present in the 
> 2.4.19-rmk5 patch, so perhaps i should just submit this patch to you.
> 
> I've added the two I2C maintainers to the mail to see if they have an opinion 
> on whether i should submit the one-line patch to them or to submit it with 
> the rest of the i2c code that i'm going to submit to the -rmk tree.
> 
> cheers,
> cam
>