On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
[off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:02:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
quoted
The one thing that really doesn't belong in /sys/devices/platform/
however are devices that are clearly children of some other
device, e.g. a UART behind MFD behind I2C behind AHB.
Who ever thought about putting a UART behind I2C ? ?That's insane!
For immediate entertainment I can tell you we have such a thing in
the AB3100 on the U300, at the other side of an I2C link.
That UART connects to a so-called "smart battery", since the
AB3100 is our mixed-signal device it had the physical connections
to the battery and thus that UART that can talk to the CPU inside
the battery.
There aren't many bauds on this bus, I assure you... yet,
batteries aren't very talkative anyway.
Yours,
Linus Walleij