On 2016-06-27 15:17, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 06/27/2016 03:11 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> Fill the gap for this pre-existing driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <p...@axentia.se>
>> ---
>> .../devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-pca9541.txt | 33
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-pca9541.txt
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm wondering about this driver. It is not a trivial device, and yet it
>> has historically relied on the i2c core matching the chip w/o vendor
>> prefix. This is not ideal. But what to do about the driver implementing
>> this in terms of an i2c-mux, somthing which the chip is not; It is an
>> i2c arbitrator. It just happens to rely on the i2c mux core also handling
>> i2c gates and i2c arbitrators. But that seems like a Linux detail. So I
>> don't know what to do here?
>>
>
> The concept of arbitrators didn't exist when I wrote the driver. I would not
> have a problem with renaming the file if that is what you are asking for.
No, that was not my issue, I just wanted to document bindings for pca9541,
and I didn't like how it turned out.
I don't really care if the bindings doc is named i2c-mux-pca9541.txt (that
would match the name of the driver, but it still wouldn't make the chip a mux).
>> That is, the patch - as is - describes something that would be trivial to
>> support today, but at the same time it seems to be too tied to Linux.
>>
>> The problem is that the i2c@0 intermediate node is not really needed, but
>> at the same time removing it would cause a disruption for the driver since
>> it can't really use the i2c mux core if that node isn't there. I don't
>> see a simple way to fix that in the i2c mux core either (but admittedly
>> haven't given it too much thought).
>>
>
> The gpio arbitrator uses the same principle as well. Why not just leave it
> alone ? Besides, I think it is a good idea to have it, since it groups
> the i2c devices behind the chip together. I would not consider that to be
> a Linuxism, but a design choice.
The grouping argument would make sense if there was anything outside the
group. Also, the required reg property and the extra #address-cells and
#size-cells doesn't add anything and just gets in the way, and is indeed
the result of Linuxisms leaking back into device trees.
If there were no muxes and this was a new driver, the example bindings
would almost certainly have been something like:
i2c-arbitrator@74 {
compatible = "nxp,pca9541";
reg = <0x74>;
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <0>;
eeprom@54 {
compatible = "at,24c08";
reg = <0x54>;
};
};
which I find much nicer.
But, I can't find a way to implement that and keep backwards compatibility
with old existing device trees.
Which is why I submitted the patch I did. It documents the pca9541 bindings,
something which is lacking, in terms of i2c-mux as the driver is written.
At the same time, this feels ugly and exposes linuxism and I wanted to make
that clear up front. The above simply looks better than the example in the
patch.
I intended to mark the submission [RFC PATCH], but I now realize that that
went missing along the way, sorry.
Cheers,
Peter
> Guenter
>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>> PS. The driver source is in drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-mux-pca9541.c
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-pca9541.txt
>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-pca9541.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..edbe84935906
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-pca9541.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
>> +* NXP PCA9541 I2C bus master selector
>> +
>> +Required Properties:
>> +
>> + - compatible: Must be "nxp,pca9541"
>> +
>> + - reg: The I2C address of the device.
>> +
>> + The following required properties are defined externally:
>> +
>> + - Standard I2C mux properties. See i2c-mux.txt in this directory.
>> + - I2C child bus nodes. See i2c-mux.txt in this directory.
>> +
>> +
>> +Example:
>> +
>> + i2c-arbitrator@74 {
>> + compatible = "nxp,pca9541";
>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>> + #size-cells = <0>;
>> + reg = <0x74>;
>> +
>> + i2c@0 {
>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>> + #size-cells = <0>;
>> + reg = <0>;
>> +
>> + eeprom@54 {
>> + compatible = "at,24c08";
>> + reg = <0x54>;
>> + };
>> + };
>> + };
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index e1b090f86e0d..3dd44d0d166c 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -5521,6 +5521,7 @@ S: Maintained
>> F: Documentation/i2c/i2c-topology
>> F: Documentation/i2c/muxes/
>> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-mux*
>> +F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb*
>> F: drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c
>> F: drivers/i2c/muxes/
>> F: include/linux/i2c-mux.h
>>
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