Re: [PATCH 1/2] i2c-core: Add gpio based bus arbitration implementation

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Brown
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:32:01PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:

quoted

I'm not convinced on the design of this protocol. It won't scale beyond
2 bus masters and it seems very specific to the design of a specific
piece of hardware. I don't think it is mature enough to bake into the

I ought to point out that the original patch would've baked this into
the Samsung I2C driver but I asked for it to be split out as it's
nothing to do with the controller really and I'm sure I've seen it
before.

Indeed, baking it into the driver is also the wrong abstraction.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.