Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932476Ab0HJVlV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:41:21 -0400 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:40575 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932367Ab0HJVlS (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:41:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:41:11 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Kenneth Heitke Cc: khali@linux-fr.org, ben-linux@fluff.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, sdharia@codeaurora.org, Crane Cai , Samuel Ortiz , Linus Walleij , Ralf Baechle , srinidhi kasagar , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: Single-wire Serial Bus Interface for Qualcomm MSM chipsets Message-ID: <20100810214111.GA28968@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1279734768-8436-1-git-send-email-kheitke@codeaurora.org> <20100728132607.GA16737@ucw.cz> <4C60B8BB.2050209@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C60B8BB.2050209@codeaurora.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1179 Lines: 28 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? I believe it should go elsewere at the very least. drivers/ssbi ? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/