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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] i2c: allow DT nodes without 'compatible'
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Hi Wolfram,

On 15/04/2020 08:59, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>
>> As I said in the reply to v1, I think we should reserve addresses also
>> when there is a compatible string but no matching driver, but this is
>> another story and can be handled separately.
>
> Unless I misunderstand you, I think they do already. Note that
> only 'i2cdetect' shows a device as busy *IFF* there is a driver bound to
> it. The internal 'i2c_check_addr_busy' does not care about a driver
> being bound. You can check this by trying to use
> i2c_new_ancillary_device() with an address which is already described in
> DT but which driver is disabled.

Aha, is it easy enough to distinguish that difference in user-space so
that we can present a specific character to indicate this in i2cdetect?
Or is that not so easy?

--
Kieran


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