Re: [PATCH 0/2] ARM: shmobile: use Lager as reference for I2C slave and core switch

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Hi Wolfram

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This series provides the necessary preparation to use Lager for testing the
> above mentioned features. After this, the rest is done at runtime as described
> in the upstream documentation.

Thanks for your series!

> This series depends on the i2c-demux-pinctrl driver which is in linux-next
> already. Because IIC0/I2C0 is unpopulated and even so, IIC0 is used as default
> like before, chances of a regression are extremly unlikely. The only regression
> I can think of is someone using:
>         a) IIC0 with an external board
>         b) the Lager DTS from upstream unmodified
>         c) a private .config and forgot to activate the i2c-demux-pinctrl driver
>
> We could point this person to the working shmobile_defconfig, though. However,
> I'd think that someone using IIC0 externally will also have a private Lager DTS
> and in that case will be made aware by the merge conflict.

Should this become a DT overlay to avoid such issues?

If yes, the question remains where to store DT overlays (apart from my
topic/renesas-overlays branch ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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