On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2016-06-24 19:50, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 09:07:15PM +0200, Karl-Heinz Schneider wrote:
>>> This patch adds device tree documentation for the sbs-manager
>
> *snip*
>
>>> +
>>> +From OS view the device is basically an i2c-mux used to communicate with up to
>>> +four smart battery devices at address 0xb. The driver actually implements this
>>> +behaviour. So standard i2c-mux nodes can be used to register up to four slave
>>> +batteries. Channels will be numerated as 1, 2, 4 and 8.
>>> +
>>> +Example:
>>> +
>>> +batman@0a {
>>> + compatible = "sbs,sbs-manager";
>>> + reg = <0x0a>;
>>> + sbsm,i2c-retry-count = <3>;
>>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>>> + #size-cells = <0>;
>>> +
>>> + channel1@1 {
>>
>> channel@1
>>
>> Do we have a standard node name for mux nodes? If not, we should.
>
> No name is enforced by the i2c mux support code, but I think "i2c"
> dominates, and quite possibly it is the only documented name?
The kernel generally doesn't care what node names are, but standard
naming is convention. If "i2c" is most common, then go with that.
Rob
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