Since SMBus-Alert is an optional feature of SMBUS which requires an additional pin, the smbus binding cannot be used to indicate its support. Add an additional smbus-alert binding specific for it and update the description text of smbus to avoid mentioning SMBus-Alert Signed-off-by: Alain Volmat <alain.volmat@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt index df41f72afc87..b864916e087f 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt @@ -89,8 +89,11 @@ wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt these bindings. - smbus states that additional SMBus restrictions and features apply to this bus. - Examples of features are SMBusHostNotify and SMBusAlert. Examples of - restrictions are more reserved addresses and timeout definitions. + An example of feature is SMBusHostNotify. Examples of restrictions are + more reserved addresses and timeout definitions. + +- smbus-alert + states that the optional SMBus-Alert feature apply to this bus. Required properties (per child device) -------------------------------------- -- 2.7.4
