On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 04:41:09PM +0800, Phil Reid wrote: > From: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@xxxxxxxxx> > > According to Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol, a smbus controller driver > that wants to hook-in smbus extensions support, can call > i2c_setup_smbus_alert(). There are very few drivers that are currently > doing this. > > However the i2c-smbus module can also work with any > smbus-extensions-unaware I2C controller, as long as we provide an extra > IRQ line connected to the I2C bus ALARM signal. > > This patch makes it possible to go this way via DT. Note that the DT node > will indeed describe a (little) piece of HW, that is the routing of the > ALARM signal to an IRQ line (so it seems a fair DT use to me, but RFC). Which piece of hardware actually generates this IRQ? The I2C controller? A slave SMBus device? Or something else? I'm not at all familiar with I2C or SMBus, and a quick scan of Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol, has left me none-the-wiser on that front. > Note that AFAICT, by design, i2c-smbus module pretends to be an I2C slave > with address 0x0C (that is the alarm response address), and IMHO this is > quite consistent with usage in the DT as a I2C child node. > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Phil Reid <preid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-smbus.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/i2c/i2c-smbus.c | 20 +++++++++++++++----- > 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-smbus.txt > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-smbus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-smbus.txt > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..da83127 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-smbus.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ > +* i2c-smbus extensions > + > +Required Properties: > + - compatible: Must contain "smbus_alert" Nit: s/_/-/ in compatible strings please. > + - interrupts: The irq line for smbus ALERT signal > + - reg: I2C slave address. Set to 0x0C (alert response address). > + > +Note: The i2c-smbus module registers itself as a slave I2C device. Whenever > +a smbus controller directly support smbus extensions (and its driver supports > +this), there is no need to add anything special to the DT. Otherwise, for using > +i2c-smbus with any smbus-extensions-unaware I2C controllers, you need to > +route the smbus ALARM signal to an extra IRQ line, thus you need to describe > +this in the DT. Bindings shouldn't mention driver details (e.g. the i2c-smbus module behaviour). It feels like we're creating a virtual device for the sake of a driver, rather than accurately capturing the hardware. So as-is, I don't think this is the right way to describe this. Thanks, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
