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

From: Alexander Sverdlin
Date: Thu Jun 18 2015 - 05:42:57 EST


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.

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Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.
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