Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756689Ab3H2SYf (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:24:35 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com ([209.85.214.182]:62477 "EHLO mail-ob0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756181Ab3H2SYc (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:24:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7583101.2yAsZLOucV@avalon> References: <1377590559-14279-1-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> <2400176.9Vcd5TUYl9@avalon> <20130827171854.GA2988@katana> <7583101.2yAsZLOucV@avalon> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:24:32 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] gpio: pcf857x: Add OF support From: Linus Walleij To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: Tomasz Figa , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Wolfram Sang , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Tomasz Figa , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Grant Likely , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , Archit Taneja , Sylwester Nawrocki , Linux-OMAP , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1140 Lines: 25 On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Laurent Pinchart 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/