Hi Wolfram,
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:37 AM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have never been a fan of the i2c aliases in the SoC-specific .dtsi files,
> > as aliases are typically board-specific.
> > We also don't have physical connectors labeled "i2c<N>" on any of
> > the affected boards. But people like the i2c aliases, because i2c
>
> The reasoning here was that the busses were named like this in the
> schematics. Debugging was confusing if these numbers were mixed.
OK.
> > exposes the full buses to userspace, and the aliases fix the userspace
> > naming of /dev/i2c-<N> (I believe there is no better way to identify
> > i2c buses from userspace?).
>
> The proper way is udev rules.
Great!
> > So moving the i2c aliases to the board files is definitely a step in
> > the good direction.
> >
> > BTW, you missed r8a774a1.dtsi in your update.
>
> Okay, so I will send v2 with the above SoC converted as well?
Yes, please. Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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