Re: [RFC v2 2/4] dt-bindings: i2c: mux: demux-pinctrl: add bindings

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Hello.

On 01/13/2016 03:52 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:

These bindings allow an I2C bus to switch between multiple masters. This
is not hot-swichting because connected I2C slaves will be
re-instantiated. It is meant to select the best I2C core at runtime once
the task is known. Example: Prefer i2c-gpio over another I2C core
because of HW errata affetcing your use case.

--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-demux-pinctrl.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@

+Here is a snipplet for a bus to be demuxed. It contains various i2c clients for

snippet

+HDMI, so the bus is named "i2c-hdmi":
+
+       i2chdmi: i2c@8 {

Would it make sense to call the node "i2c-bus@8"?

That sounds like a question for our EPapr expert Sergei (CCed) :)

ePAPR only mentions "i2c". I'm not sure where the numeric part of the name comes from in this case...

[...]

MBR, Sergei

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