On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:04 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 01:46 -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote: >> Added slave support for Aspeed I2C controller. Supports fourteen busses >> present in AST24XX and AST25XX BMC SoCs by Aspeed. > > (Not an issue for merging) > > Have you looked at a "mode" by which you implement just enough of the > slave support to decode smbus notifications ? > > This looks like it could be useful when using pmbus devices, as some of > them use smbus notifications fairly often. > > Today only one driver calls i2c_handle_smbus_host_notify() (the Intel > one of course). > Although I have not thought about the exact thing you are mentioning, I want to implement a number of other features for the slave. The thing I am most interested in is adding support for smbus alert from the slave side. Nevertheless, I wanted to actually get the driver in before I start trying to do interesting things. As it is, the slave code satisfies our current purposes and I do not know of anyone else who wants this feature at this time. Cheers -- 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
