[RFC] i2c: Providing hooks for i2c multimaster bus arbitration.

[Yuvaraj Kumar]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
> Yavaraj,
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Yuvaraj Kumar C D <yuvaraj.cd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> This RFC patch is w.r.t multimaster bus arbitration which is already
>> being discussing in the mainline.
>> This patch provides hooks for the i2c multimaster bus arbitration
>> and to have the arbitration parameters.
>
>
> I may have missed something in all the threads, but my recollection was that
> the request was that this should be implemented without touching the i2c
> core code.  Your patch modifies the i2c core code.
   Different i2c devices will directly talk to i2c core using i2c_transfer().
   If we put this out of the i2c core,the i2c devices like tpsxxxx and etc
   should be registered through the bridge/mux .
>
> My impression was that the best solution was to use the infrastructure in
> place for i2c multiplexing.  ...but in your case you would only multiplex
> one thing.  This was suggested by Grant Likely and seems the cleanest...
   I agree that Grants idea was the cleanest but we may end up in change in

>
> -Doug