[PATCH v5] gpio: pcf857x: Add OF support
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Thu Aug 29 19:44:50 EDT 2013
Hi Linus,
On Thursday 29 August 2013 20:24:32 Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 August 2013 19:18:55 Wolfram Sang wrote:
> >> > The driver should support the same chip models reardless of whether
> >> > it's used with or without DT. If an entry in the OF table has no
> >> > corresponding entry in the I2C table I would consider that as a driver
> >> > bug.
> >>
> >> Linus Walleij posted a patch to support DT only probing, but too many
> >> side-effects showed up. Some were fixable (probe regressions) and some
> >> need more work, if feasible at all. Most prominent is that runtime
> >> instantiation of i2c slaves currently needs an entry in the i2c table.
> >
> > Linus, I'd like to get this in v3.12 if it's not too late. Could you
> > please provide your input ?
>
> Provided some input on the v4 version,
Do you mean v4 of this patch ? I can't find your reply.
> due to being a bit overloaded my patch queue is overloaded...
No worries. We can delay this one until v3.13.
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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