Hi Peter, > If you really have a separate device on the bus with the same address > that you want to add slave support for, then there really is a conflict, > and the kernel knows it. We still have a disagreement about "the kernel knows it". The kernel knows it only in one case, i.e. when you are able to describe all devices on the bus. What about this compromise: We keep the current scheme, but print a warning when the kernel notices a slave device has the same address which is already claimed by a client driver. This will let most users know about the conflict but it will not hurt the debugging-via-loopback case, since people know what they are doing and will happily ignore it. If you can agree to that, I'll cook up a patch later this week. Thanks, Wolfram
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