i2c-imx: Autoprobe of eeproms

[Wolfram Sang]

Hi Mattias,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:15:51PM +0100, Mattias Walstrom wrote:

> I have tried to get autoprobe of eeproms to work on a custom freescale
> mx27-board, and i found out that the i2c-imx driver was missing the
> following, is there a reason for this, most other i2c-bus drivers seems
> to have it?

Yes. Autoprobing on I2C is not favoured (can have side-effects) with embedded
platforms, so the proper way is to declare the eeprom as board-info or
instantiate it at runtime.

Check Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices for further info.

Regards,

   Wolfram

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