Hi, On 15/04/20 09:59, Wolfram Sang wrote: > >> As I said in the reply to v1, I think we should reserve addresses also >> when there is a compatible string but no matching driver, but this is >> another story and can be handled separately. > > Unless I misunderstand you, I think they do already. Note that > only 'i2cdetect' shows a device as busy *IFF* there is a driver bound to > it. The internal 'i2c_check_addr_busy' does not care about a driver > being bound. You can check this by trying to use > i2c_new_ancillary_device() with an address which is already described in > DT but which driver is disabled. > Ah, yes! I was assuming the opposite but I double checked and you're right of course. Sorry for the noise. -- Luca
