[PATCH 1/2] ARM: davinci: mityomapl138: Enable I2C1 master

Sekhar Nori nsekhar at ti.com
Mon Sep 28 13:48:32 EDT 2020


Hi Esben,

On 28/09/20 12:21 PM, Esben Haabendal wrote:
> Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi Esben,
>>
>> On 31/08/20 5:33 PM, Esben Haabendal wrote:
>>> The I2C1 master is available at the SOM connector, and as such should be
>>> available for applications where SOM module is connected to a board with
>>> I2C chips connected to it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <esben at geanix.com>
>>
>> If you are actively using this hardware, can you instead convert this
>> over to device-tree? I would prefer that than keep the board file upto date.
> 
> Hi
> 
> Yes, I could instead convert this entire board to device-tree.  But on
> the short-term, I am afraid I won't have time to do that.  I hope we can
> find a way to merge this rather small change for now.  It should not
> cause any problems for the future work to move to device-tree.

This change itself may be small, but we cannot add new features for
board files anymore. Sorry, but an embargo on new features is the only
way to incentivize DT conversion,

Thanks,
Sekhar



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