Re: [PATCH] mfd: da9063: occupy second I2C address, too

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On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Steve Twiss wrote:

> (resend because the e-mail client added HTML formatting to my last reply)
> 
> Hi Wolfram,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:18:06, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > Subject: [PATCH] mfd: da9063: occupy second I2C address, too
> > 
> > Even though we don't use it yet, we should mark the second I2C address
> > this device is listening to as used.
> 
> Sure. There is a second method for accessing higher pages of registers.
> The DA9063 Datasheet Revision 2.2, 12-Mar-2019, page 96, says this:
> 
> In 2-WIRE operation, the DA9063 offers an alternative method to access register pages 2 and 3.
> These pages can be accessed directly by incrementing the device address by one (default read
> address 0xB3; write address 0xB2). This removes the need to write to the page register before
> access to pages 2 and 3, thus reducing the traffic on the 2-WIRE bus.
> 
> Is this a safety clause? What I mean is, shouldn't the hardware design make
> sure there are not two devices located on the same I2C bus with the same slave
> address?

Why isn't this reply attached (threaded) to the patch.

Is your mailer broken?

> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mfd/da9063-i2c.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/da9063-i2c.c b/drivers/mfd/da9063-i2c.c
> > index 455de74c0dd2..2133b09f6e7a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mfd/da9063-i2c.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mfd/da9063-i2c.c
> > @@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ static int da9063_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
> >  		return ret;
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	devm_i2c_new_dummy_device(&i2c->dev, i2c->adapter, i2c->addr + 1);
> > +
> >  	return da9063_device_init(da9063, i2c->irq);
> >  }
> >  
> 

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