linux-kernel - Re: i2c-eg20t: regression since i2c_add_numbered

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Message-ID: <20120822152918.3e59616e@feng-i7>
Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:29:18 +0800
From:	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
To:	Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tec-electronic.com>
Cc:	<linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Jean Delvare (PC drivers, core)" <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	"Ben Dooks (embedded platforms)" <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@...il.com>
Subject: Re: i2c-eg20t: regression since i2c_add_numbered_adapter change

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:30:35 +0200
Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tec-electronic.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just noticed the 3.4 linux kernel fails to sucessfully probe the i2c-eg20t 
> driver. I returns with EBUSY error. It worked on the 3.0 kernel. To my view it 
> is caused the commit 07e8a51ff68353e01d795cceafbac9f54c49132b ( i2c-eg20t: use 
> i2c_add_numbered_adapter to get a fixed bus number).
> The reason it actually fails is that the i2c-isch driver is registered 
> beforehand which gets bus number 0. But this one is the bus number the eg20t 
> driver wants to register.

Make sense.

> A possibility is that if i2c_add_numbered_adapter failed with EBUSY just use 
> i2c_add_adapter to get at least the driver working, but with a non-fixed bus 
> number. Opinions?

Or can we give it a fixed offset, like let the i2c_eg20t controller bus number
start with 4? I don't expect there will be more than 4 other i2c controllers 
on EG20T compatible platforms.

Thanks,
Feng
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