On 2 August 2016 at 08:49, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 02/08/16 07:26, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On 23 June 2016 at 17:59, Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> If the 'i2c-bus' device-tree node is present for an I2C adapter then
>>> parse this subnode for I2C slaves.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 10 ++++++++--
>>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>>> index 952d2f0c02c5..71ad532be1d8 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>>> @@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ static struct i2c_client *of_i2c_register_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap,
>>>
>>> static void of_i2c_register_devices(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
>>> {
>>> - struct device_node *node;
>>> + struct device_node *bus, *node;
>>>
>>> /* Only register child devices if the adapter has a node pointer set */
>>> if (!adap->dev.of_node)
>>> @@ -1460,11 +1460,17 @@ static void of_i2c_register_devices(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
>>>
>>> dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "of_i2c: walking child nodes\n");
>>>
>>> - for_each_available_child_of_node(adap->dev.of_node, node) {
>>> + bus = of_get_child_by_name(adap->dev.of_node, "i2c-bus");
>>> + if (!bus)
>>> + bus = of_node_get(adap->dev.of_node);
>>> +
>>> + for_each_available_child_of_node(bus, node) {
>>> if (of_node_test_and_set_flag(node, OF_POPULATED))
>>> continue;
>>> of_i2c_register_device(adap, node);
>>> }
>>> +
>>> + of_node_put(bus);
>>> }
>>
>> Sorry for not commenting earlier, but I only found the issue yesterday.
>>
>> I'm bothered as well by the "modalias failure" error message but in my
>> case the node doesn't have any i2c devices, so this patch isn't a
>> complete solution to that problem.
>
> But it is a i2c adapter correct? I guess I don't completely understand
> the problem?
>
>> Has this been considered already?
>
> Why can't you add a place-holder 'i2c-bus' node for i2c devices so when
> they are adding in the future they are placed under this node? This is
> what I did for dpaux. See patch 12/12 of this series.
Hadn't realized, and it sounds good enough to me.
Thanks,
Tomeu
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