# Re: Add Apple M1 support to PASemi i2c driver

- From: Sven Peter \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-10-04 11:22:45 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/10/1529412
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-arm-kernel/2021/09/1521991/t.md

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On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, at 13:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 11:55 AM Wolfram Sang [ref] wrote:
>>
>>
>> > i2c-8 i2c             PA Semi SMBus adapter at 0x(____ptrval____)     I2C adapter
>> > i2c-9 i2c             PA Semi SMBus adapter at 0x(____ptrval____)     I2C adapter
>> > i2c-10        i2c             PA Semi SMBus adapter at 0x(____ptrval____)     I2C adapter
>>
>> As Sven correctly switched from %lx to %p, this is intended behaviour.
>> Run 'i2cdetect' as root to see the values again.
>
> I think the address could just get removed here, as this is clearly not helpful.
> port number, which is somewhat useful for identifying the device, now
> it's either the pointless string, or the virtual address that the
> device is mapped
> to, which is not helpful either and potentially leaks information about kernel
> internal structures.

Yeah, now that I'm looking at it again it doesn't make much sense to
include it there. Maybe just dev_name(smbus->dev) instead of the address?


Sven
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