Some I2C clients need the ability to control the root I2C bus even if the endpoint device is behind a mux. For example, a driver for a chip that can't handle any I2C traffic on the bus while coming out of reset (including an I2C-driven mux switching channels) may need to lock the root bus with the mux selection fixed for the entire time the device is in reset. The SI7020 is such a device. This series adds the ability to the I2C core to lock the root adapter of a client and fix the mux channel selection until unlocked. The patch to the SI7020 driver then uses the new functions to do just that and make sure the chip reset is safe. I included the IIO patch for context, I can split and resubmit to iio list only if necessary. Thanks to Milton for the general idea here. Eddie James (2): i2c: core: Add mux root adapter operations iio: si7020: Lock root adapter to wait for reset drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/iio/humidity/si7020.c | 16 +++++++++-- include/linux/i2c.h | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.27.0
