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Date:   Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:56:54 +0200
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To:     Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] media: i2c: add DS90UB913 driver
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Hi Tomi,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 08:36:47AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 08:29, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> 
> >> wondering if the struct device of the DS90UB913 could be passed instead
> >> of the port, to avoid passing the port throught
> >> ds90ub9xx_platform_data.
> > 
> > Interesting thought. That would limit the number of remote i2c busses to 
> > one, though. Not a problem for FPD-Link, but I wonder if that's assuming 
> > too much for the future users. Then again, this is an in-kernel API so 
> > we could extend it later if needed. So I'll try this out and see if I 
> > hit any issues.
> 
> Right, so the issue with this one would be that it would prevent a 
> single device uses. E.g. a single chip which acts as an ATR (similar to 
> i2c-mux chips), i.e. it contains both the main and the remote i2c busses.

I don't think I understand this, sorry.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart