linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] of/of_i2c: add support for dedicated OF I2C devices

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Message-Id: <20081028.114135.169795007.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	avorontsov@...mvista.com
Cc:	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, david-b@...bell.net,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] of/of_i2c: add support for dedicated OF I2C devices

From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:46:15 +0300

> of_i2c will create the OF platform device if it knows that the
> device won't work without platform data. The OF platform driver
> will fill the platform data and will register real I2C device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>

Wrt. the comment in the ppc protected code, sparc doesn't need stuff
like this, we already create an of_device for every node in the device
tree.

Just use "of_find_device_by_node()" on sparc, which will work on any
device_node object.
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