From: Matt Porter <porter@cox•net>
To: Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro•au>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enhanced i2c driver for MPC8xx/MPC8260 CPM ...
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 06:27:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020528062717.B2267@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27079.1022585971@msa.cmst.csiro.au>; from Murray.Jensen@csiro.au on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:39:31PM +1000
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:39:31PM +1000, Murray Jensen wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 May 2002 07:01:25 -0400, Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge•com> writes:
> >Murray Jensen wrote:
> >
> >> enhanced i2c driver for MPC8xx/MPC8260 CPM ...
> >
> >These have to be submitted through the i2c project on sourceforge (or
> >where ever it is). The i2c isn't part of the kernel source tree, it is
> >applied on top from their repository from time to time.
>
> Tom said this to me as well, and I agree in principle, but I thought it should
> first be reviewed by the Linux/PPC Embedded community. It's actually quite a
> hacky driver, but in my defence, I could claim the original driver was hacky
> to start with - I really didn't change it a lot, conceptually (what I mean by
> this is that it could be much improved in the way it does things - more
> correct, more efficient, etc, but hey it works reliably for me, so there isn't
> a lot of incentive to fix it - its only i2c after all :-).
>
> Also, the i2c people probably wouldn't have any hope of testing this driver,
> since nothing else is going to have a CPM, and in fact I haven't even tested
> it myself on the 8xx platform yet. I propose we get it into linuxppc_2_4_devel
> and have it hammered on by others, and when/if it gets the thumbs up from the
> Linux/PPC Embedded community, we/I contribute it back to the i2c project -
> really just for the sake of completeness. Comments? Cheers!
FWIW, that's why I pushed the 4xx IIC driver to _devel recently. It
certainly allows a wider audience to easily test and submit changes
to the maintainer, allowing for faster turnaround in improvements.
Regards,
--
Matt Porter
porter@cox•net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-28 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-28 5:43 [PATCH] enhanced i2c driver for MPC8xx/MPC8260 CPM Murray Jensen
2002-05-28 11:01 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-28 11:39 ` Murray Jensen
2002-05-28 13:27 ` Matt Porter [this message]
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2002-05-31 0:09 Jeremy Rosen
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2002-05-31 1:32 ` Murray Jensen
2002-05-31 14:47 ` Tom Rini
2002-06-01 2:28 ` Murray Jensen
2002-06-03 14:23 ` Tom Rini
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