On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 10:56 +0100, Luis Oliveira wrote: > Since practically 90% of the code is shared between master and slave, > I was > thinking if it will be acceptable to use the same driver for both but > differentiate the master/slave mode by the compatible strings. It might be possible to split like other drivers do: 1. Core part (i2c-designware-core.c) 2. Master part (i2c-designware-master.c) 3. Slave part (i2c-designware-slave.c) 4. Glue drivers (like: i2c-designware-platdrv.c) > > Thanks, > Luis > > On 10/18/2016 16:17, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > This is needed because the configuration is different and the i2c- > > > designware > > > cannot be master/slave without a reset. To resolve that I added > > > this property > > > to bind it as a slave when needed. > > > > Aww, pity that the HW can't do that. Do you have details why? > > > > If that is really a HW limitation, then I'd suggest having a > > seperate > > driver for slave-only mode so we can differentiate by compatible > > strings. > > > > -- Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Intel Finland Oy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
