Hi Luca, Jacopo, Wolfram, Peter, On 09/01/2019 05:31 PM, jacopo mondi wrote: > Hi Luca, > thanks for keep pushing this series! I hope we can use part of this > for the (long time) on-going GMSL work... > > I hope you will be patient enough to provide (another :) overview > of this work during the BoF Wolfram has organized at LPC for the next > week. > > In the meantime I would have some comments after having a read at the > series and trying to apply its concept to GMSL > I won't attend the LPC, however I would appreciate if you book some time to review my original / alternative implementation of the TI DS90Ux9xx I2C bridge device driver. For your convenience the links to the driver are given below: * dt bindings: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181012060314.GU4939@dell/T/#mead5ea226550b * driver code: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181012060314.GU4939@dell/T/#m2fe3664c5f884 * usage example: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181012060314.GU4939@dell/T/#m56c146f5decdc The reasons why my driver is better/more flexible/more functional are discussed earlier, please let me know, if you expect anything else from me to add, also I would be happy to get a summary of your offline discussion. The undeniable fact is that the device tree bindings in my I2C bridge implementation can be improved further, thanks to Luca for the comments. > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:37:19PM +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote: >> An ATR is a device that looks similar to an i2c-mux: it has an I2C >> slave "upstream" port and N master "downstream" ports, and forwards >> transactions from upstream to the appropriate downstream port. But is >> is different in that the forwarded transaction has a different slave >> address. The address used on the upstream bus is called the "alias" >> and is (potentially) different from the physical slave address of the >> downstream chip. >> >> Add a helper file (just like i2c-mux.c for a mux or switch) to allow >> implementing ATR features in a device driver. The helper takes care or >> adapter creation/destruction and translates addresses at each transaction. >> >> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> -- Best wishes, Vladimir