Re: [PATCH v3] i2c/mux: Driver for PCA9541 I2C Master Selector

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Oct 21 2010 - 11:03:39 EST


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:43:04AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:55:08 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > This patch adds support for PCA9541, an I2C Bus Master Selector.
> > The driver is modeled as single channel I2C Multiplexer to be able to utilize
> > the I2C multiplexer framework.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Grennan <tom.grennan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v3 changes:
> > - Clarified and cleaned up comments.
> > - No longer pass "struct i2c_adapter *" as parameter.
> > Get it from client->adapter if needed.
> > - No longer pass "struct pca9541 *" as parameter.
> > Pass "struct i2c_client *" instead and get "struct pca9541 *" from it
> > if needed.
> > - Removed "struct i2c_client *client" from struct pca9541 since it is
> > no longer needed.
> > - Moved "pca9541_release_bus(client);" ahead of i2c_add_mux_adapter()
> > to avoid a possible race condition. Also protect the call with
> > i2c_lock_adapter() / i2c_unlock_adapter().
> > - Removed __devinit from pca9541_probe() and __devexit from pca9541_remove().
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> Would you mind adding yourself to MAINTAINERS as a maintainer for this
> driver? While the driver is small, it's not trivial and it's difficult
> to work on it without the right hardware setup.
>
Sure. Not intentional - I wanted to do that, just forgot. And I agree,
it is pretty much impossible to maintain it unless you have HW to test it.

Want me to resubmit or send a separate patch ?

Thanks,
Guenter
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