TL-WR1043: switch

[John-Mark Gurney]

Aleksandr Rybalko wrote this message on Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 16:45 +0200:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 22:39:32 +0800
> Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >> .. erk.
> >> 
> >> Well, what shall we do? Create a different driver? Or just enable a
> >> "quirk" or configuration paramater, which allows the device to be
> >> not-quite-i2c?
> 
> It's too specific to Realtek, so from one point better to have
> separate driver, but from another point it have i2c EEPROM on same bus.
> So if we want to have access to both, we need quirk.

Not to complicate things, but you could have a custom bus driver that
provides an attachment for the standard i2c bus, and another attachment
for the Realtek part...  This custom bus driver would mediate access
between the two...

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