Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-core-base: fix devicetree alias handling

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas, Bart, all
>
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 06:04:42PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> > Parent device is not set up there, so use the new of_node pointer to
> > handle aliases.
> >
> > Fixes: 0ab80451c70f ("i2c: allow setting the parent device and OF node through the adapter struct")
> > Reported-by: Kalle Niemi <kaleposti@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/EDF3FB58-4747-442E-8463-6F1C6E568962@xxxxxxxxx/
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you a lot for this fix! I will apply the patch. Plus, I want to
> describe what it also made me do.
>
> Bart's patches are in for-current and were planned to be sent to Linus
> as an "after -rc1 cleanup". This patch tells me that we are not there
> yet and the patch series should have a full cycle in -next, so we (read:
> I) have more trust that we didn't overlook side-effects. As a
> conclusion, I will move Bart's patch series to for-mergewindow and apply
> your patch on top of it.
>
> Bart, I am sorry for the delay it introduces, but I think the smoother
> the transition the better. Maybe we can save some time somewhere else?
>

I think there's been a misunderstanding. I've never suggested this
should go into v7.0. This is definitely v7.1 material and should cook
in linux-next. So yeah, feel free to queue it for the next merge
window.

Bartosz