Thanks for the comment. I'll upload a new version using IF_OTHER as
discussed in that thread.

I don't know if adding the assertion for type != IF_NONE is a good idea now
so I didn't add that.
If you think that's good I can add it as well.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 2:13 AM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/11/2021 18.47, Hao Wu wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 10:41 AM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org
> > <mailto:peter.mayd...@linaro.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 19:40, Hao Wu <wuhao...@google.com
> >     <mailto:wuhao...@google.com>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      > We made 3 changes to the at24c_eeprom_init function in
> >      > npcm7xx_boards.c:
> >      >
> >      > 1. We allow the function to take a I2CBus* as parameter. This
> allows
> >      >    us to attach an EEPROM device behind an I2C mux which is not
> >      >    possible with the old method.
> >      >
> >      > 2. We make at24c EEPROMs are backed by drives so that we can
> >      >    specify the content of the EEPROMs.
> >      >
> >      > 3. Instead of using i2c address as unit number, This patch assigns
> >      >    unique unit numbers for each eeproms in each board. This avoids
> >      >    conflict in providing multiple eeprom contents with the same
> address.
> >      >    In the old method if we specify two drives with the same unit
> number,
> >      >    the following error will occur: `Device with id 'none85'
> exists`.
> >      >
> >      > Signed-off-by: Hao Wu <wuhao...@google.com <mailto:
> wuhao...@google.com>>
> >      > ---
> >      >  hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> >      >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >      >
> >      > diff --git a/hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c b/hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c
> >      > index a656169f61..cdb52b9922 100644
> >      > --- a/hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c
> >      > +++ b/hw/arm/npcm7xx_boards.c
> >      > @@ -107,13 +107,18 @@ static I2CBus
> *npcm7xx_i2c_get_bus(NPCM7xxState
> >     *soc, uint32_t num)
> >      >      return I2C_BUS(qdev_get_child_bus(DEVICE(&soc->smbus[num]),
> >     "i2c-bus"));
> >      >  }
> >      >
> >      > -static void at24c_eeprom_init(NPCM7xxState *soc, int bus,
> uint8_t addr,
> >      > -                              uint32_t rsize)
> >      > +static void at24c_eeprom_init(I2CBus *i2c_bus, int bus, uint8_t
> addr,
> >      > +                              uint32_t rsize, int unit_number)
> >      >  {
> >      > -    I2CBus *i2c_bus = npcm7xx_i2c_get_bus(soc, bus);
> >      >      I2CSlave *i2c_dev = i2c_slave_new("at24c-eeprom", addr);
> >      >      DeviceState *dev = DEVICE(i2c_dev);
> >      > +    BlockInterfaceType type = IF_NONE;
> >
> >     Why make this a variable? We only use it in one place...
> >
> > You're right, we can actually inline it.
>
> Actually, please do *not* use IF_NONE for such stuff. See the discussion
> here for details:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-11/msg00970.html
>
>   Thomas
>
>

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