[PATCH 2/5] ARM: shmobile: r8a7791: add i2c master nodes to dtsi

Magnus Damm magnus.damm at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 05:11:14 EST 2014


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:
>
>> It won't break because anyone who modifies r8a7790 support need to
>> make it specific to that SoC to not pull in r8a7791 into some
>> assumption.
>
> Geert's assumption was that exactly this can be forgotten. While this is
> true, my point was that this is a bug. And as it turned out, neither
> this or that solution helps the case :) It needs to be fixed or done
> properly right from the beginning.
>
>> realize that there is no shortcut for adding the compatible string to
>> the driver. It has to be done sooner or later anyway.
>
> OK, can be seen this way. As said before, I'll resend.

Thanks! I'd be happy to discuss this more over a beverage in the not
so distant future! =)

/ magnus



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