Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754374AbbFRJmy (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:42:54 -0400 Received: from demumfd002.nsn-inter.net ([93.183.12.31]:51105 "EHLO demumfd002.nsn-inter.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754160AbbFRJmq (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:42:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver/i2c/mux: Add register based mux i2c-mux-reg To: ext Paul Bolle References: <1434475692-4611-1-git-send-email-yorksun@freescale.com> <1434531244.2069.111.camel@x220> <55818BAB.5090605@nokia.com> <1434556990.2400.16.camel@x220> <558275F1.5020100@nokia.com> <1434614901.2385.27.camel@x220> <5582899B.9030307@nokia.com> <1434619943.2385.59.camel@x220> Cc: York Sun , wsa@the-dreams.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Peter Korsgaard From: Alexander Sverdlin Message-ID: <5582928D.4080706@nokia.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:42:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1434619943.2385.59.camel@x220> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-Ad: Categorized by eleven eXpurgate (R) http://www.eleven.de X-purgate: clean X-purgate: This mail is considered clean (visit http://www.eleven.de for further information) X-purgate-size: 703 X-purgate-ID: 151667::1434620558-000058B4-E5647946/0/0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 925 Lines: 28 Hi! On 18/06/15 11:32, ext Paul Bolle wrote: > As I understand it, we've established that: > - this macro setups up udev, and modprobe, and friends, to listen to a > "MODALIAS=platform:i2c-mux-reg" message; and > - that there's currently no code in the kernel that will send out this > message. > > Did I get that right? Because it follows from the above that this line > serves no purpose. Worse, it makes the code actually confusing. Because Are you kidding? > it suggests the availability of functionality that in reality doesn't > exist. Most of the usual drivers in the Kernel have this line. Until now no animal was hurt with it. -- Best regards, Alexander Sverdlin. -- 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/