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Message-ID: <5162BE28.1080005@nvidia.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:25:04 +0530
From:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	"sameo@...ux.intel.com" <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	"gg@...mlogic.co.uk" <gg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: palmas: initialise client->of_node for dummy created
 client

On Wednesday 20 March 2013 08:09 PM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 March 2013 10:56 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:10:34AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 03/19/2013 10:52 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>>> This does then make it more complicated for all users of I2C as
>>>> they need to become aware of such devices.  Not sure that's a
>>>> win...
>>> Presumably the existing APIs would work identically, and additional
>>> APIs would be added for the complex case?
>> Right, but we'd have to add the additional APIs to things like regmap
>> and ASoC which seems like a kerfuffle.
>>
> Yes, to add the multiple address list in i2c_client, then adding address
> index in i2c apis, adding address index in regmap inits etc. can require
> lots of RFE patches in different subsystem. We can keep discussing this
> and once conclude, we can go for implementation.
>
> But for now, can I assume that this patch is fine for resolving my
> interrupt issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Laxman
>

I did not heard any objection on this patch so requesting Samuel to 
considering this patch as of now?


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