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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-designware-pci: Index Haswell ULT bus names from 0
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 02:09:59PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 06:14:18PM -0800, Benson Leung wrote:
> > Hi Wolfram,
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> wrote:
> > >> In the chromeos_laptop driver, I do by-name matching of i2c busses to
> > >> find busses and instantiate devices, so there is value to have each
> > >> named something predictable.
> > >
> > > Any why don't you use fixed bus numbers which you can attach the devices
> > > to?
> >
> > On this particular set of systems, there are two other classes of i2c
> > adapters that use dynamically assigned bus numbers, specifically the
> > i915 gmbus adapters, and the i801_smbus adapter. This is why
> > chromeos_laptop uses the name matching, as some of the boards that it
> > supports have devices on those dynamic busses.
>
> I am not sure I get the problem. If you use i2c_register_board_info() to
> register the known devices on the designware busses the dynamically
> assigned numbers are guaranteed to be enumarated higer than the static
> ones. Check drivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c.

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