Re: [PATCH v5] gpio: pcf857x: Add OF support

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2013 19:18:55 Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> > The driver should support the same chip models reardless of whether it's
>> > used with or without DT. If an entry in the OF table has no corresponding
>> > entry in the I2C table I would consider that as a driver bug.
>>
>> Linus Walleij posted a patch to support DT only probing, but too many
>> side-effects showed up. Some were fixable (probe regressions) and some
>> need more work, if feasible at all. Most prominent is that runtime
>> instantiation of i2c slaves currently needs an entry in the i2c table.
>
> Linus, I'd like to get this in v3.12 if it's not too late. Could you please
> provide your input ?

Provided some input on the v4 version, due to being a bit overloaded
my patch queue is overloaded...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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