Am Montag, den 27.06.2016, 10:28 -0500 schrieb Rob Herring:
> 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.
Will do so.
"channelx" will go "i2c"
"batteryx" will go "battery"
>
> Rob
Karl-Heinz
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