On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:39:40PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

I see, the old support needed the drivers to be built-in. The newer
code dynamically loads the correct i2c driver and set its parameters.

Did the old code use anything besides compatible?

Yes.

It would have been using the older i2c system that probed for the
address.

No, it wouldn't have.  It used glue code to generate i2c_board_info
structs.

quoted

 See commit id d13ae8620dfdedfa7e9ab6d1eec294adc0516065.

As shown in the above commit id. :-)

-Scott