Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:24:32 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] gpio: pcf857x: Add OF support | From | Linus Walleij <> |
| |
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> 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, due to being a bit overloaded my patch queue is overloaded...
Yours, Linus Walleij
| |