libi2c: Claiming driver slot failed

[Sebastian Huber]

On 2013-08-12 05:10, Chris Johns wrote:
> Nick Withers wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me like there's an inversion of the App ->  BSP ->  RTEMS
>> abstraction going on here, where the app effectively needs to know
>> "black-box" details of the BSP, making maintenence and portability more
>> difficult and error prone than needs be...?
>>
>
> I would like to see the drivers and the device table become unlimited just like
> the other unlimited resources in the kernel. The value becomes an allocation unit.

We should not start adding new tables, instead we should get rid of them. 
Propagating this major/minor number concept down to the lowest implementation 
levels is a major design problem from my point of view.  For drivers I would 
use IMFS generic nodes (e.g. a RTEMS device file system).

http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs/doxygen/cpukit/html/group__IMFSGenericNodes.html

It is possible to strip down IMFS to get a directory + generic nodes subset 
with very low overhead.  It is also possible to use static only memory (no 
malloc()) for this.

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