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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:26:03 -0600
From: Kenneth Heitke <kheitke@codeaurora.org>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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        srinidhi kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@stericsson.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: Single-wire Serial Bus Interface for Qualcomm MSM
 chipsets
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> This bus driver supports the Single-wire Serial Bus Interface (SSBI)
>> controller in the Qualcomm MSM SOCs.  SSBI is not an I2C but is
>> functionally related enough such that it is able to leaverage the I2C
>> framework.
>>
>> Unlike I2C, SSBI is a point-to-point connection, and therefore there is no
>> need to specify a slave device address. The SSBI implementation
>> overrides the slave device address to be a device register address
> 
> Then perhaps it should not go to drivers/i2c? 
> 

I'd like to make use of the i2c framework rather than implement 
something else.  Are you suggesting that the driver reside elsewhere 
(i.e. mach-msm) or that the driver not use the i2c framework?

thanks.

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