On 2018-07-12 10:08, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 6:41 AM, Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 2018-07-11 19:12, Boris Brezillon wrote: >>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:39:56 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> That's exactly the sort of discussion I wanted to trigger. Maybe we >>> shouldn't care and expose this use case as if it was X different I3C >>> buses (with all devices present on the bus being exposed X times to the >>> system). >> >> For I2C, this multiple masters for one bus case was retrofitted in >> the i2c-demux-pinctrl driver. It's a huge kludge with a number of >> undesirable quirks. I don't know if the circumstances for adding >> this I2C driver also applies for I3C, but it might be an argument >> in favor of the proposed extra bus object... > > From reading the documentation and git history on that driver, > it seems to be used only for static configuration, i.e. you use > one driver or the other, but don't flip between them at runtime, > right? There is a sysfs file that can be used to change master at runtime (current_master). This causes all client drivers to be reprobed, which may not be the best thing to do for every client out there... > I'm guessing that even with i3c we may have to support something > like that, as a likely scenario might be that the i3c controller is > multiplexed with a traditional i2c controller and/or gpios, but you > would not be able to perform the i3c standard secondary master > transition with the latter two because they are (by definition) not > i3c compatible. i2c-demux-pinctrl should probably not be used as template for something else, but it is a good argument for some other design IMHO... Cheers, Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
