[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: i2c-mpc: preserve I2C clocking

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Apr 1 10:06:26 EST 2009


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:43:39PM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> The I2c node property "fsl,preserve-clocking" allows to overtake the
> clock settings from the boot loader and avoids the hard-coded setting.

Hrm.  This is dubious.  The device tree should generally describe
hardware, not OS/driver behaviour which is what this appears to be
doing.  There are exceptions, but you need to justify them.

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