Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c-s3c2410: Add bus arbitration implementation

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On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:14:58PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > It was originally done separately but I think it was felt that this
>> > was overly complex. Olof can you please comment on this?
>
>> it is indeed not controller specific per se, but we are unaware of any
>> other platform/driver using it. So, it seemed reasonable to implement
>> it in the driver as long as we have only one user; if another one
>> comes along it's of course better to move it to the common i2c code.
>
>> At least that was my opinion at the time. I could be convinced
>> otherwise if someone else has strong opinions on the matter.
>
> This sort of approach is half the reason SPI ended up being so fun...  I
> suspect if you look hard enough you'll find that this is just the first
> time someone tried to upstream such a scheme.  This is all especially
> true for the DT bindings, even if the implementation is driver local for
> now it'd be better to define generic bindings.

Ok, sounds like we might as well make it generic then. Naveen?


-Olof
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