Re: [PATCH 8/12] drivers: PMC MSP71xx TWI driver]

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Hi Marc,

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:42:39 -0800, Marc St-Jean wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Why are you making a separate algorithm driver? This should really only
> > be done when the algorithm is very generic. This is the exception, not
> > the rule. These days I tend to move algorithm code back into the only
> > bus driver that uses them (i2c-algo-sibyte done recently, i2c-algo-sgi
> > is next on my list.)
> 
> I believe it was done to separate the algorithm for the TWI sub-system,
> which is used in several devices, from the device family code. If this
> is no longer acceptable I will merge the algo code with the adapter.

You should be able to have a single i2c bus driver handling all the
different devices, by using the platform data to provide the
device-specific configuration. The i2c-algorithm concept is quite old,
now that we have a clean new device driver model it should no longer be
necessary in most cases.

-- 
Jean Delvare


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