linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver/i2c/mux: Add register based mux i2c-mux-reg

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Message-ID: <5582928D.4080706@nokia.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:42:37 +0200
From:	Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>
To:	ext Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	York Sun <yorksun@...escale.com>, wsa@...-dreams.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@...co.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver/i2c/mux: Add register based mux i2c-mux-reg

Hi!

On 18/06/15 11:32, ext Paul Bolle wrote:
> As I understand it, we've established that:
> - this macro setups up udev, and modprobe, and friends, to listen to a
> "MODALIAS=platform:i2c-mux-reg" message; and
> - that there's currently no code in the kernel that will send out this
> message.
> 
> Did I get that right? Because it follows from the above that this line
> serves no purpose. Worse, it makes the code actually confusing. Because

Are you kidding?

> it suggests the availability of functionality that in reality doesn't
> exist.

Most of the usual drivers in the Kernel have this line. Until now no animal
was hurt with it.

-- 
Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.
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