linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt
Jean-Michel Hautbois 0f614d834b i2c: Add generic support passing secondary devices addresses
Some I2C devices have multiple addresses assigned, for example each address
corresponding to a different internal register map page of the device.
So far drivers which need support for this have handled this with a driver
specific and non-generic implementation, e.g. passing the additional address
via platform data.

This patch provides a new helper function called i2c_new_secondary_device()
which is intended to provide a generic way to get the secondary address
as well as instantiate a struct i2c_client for the secondary address.

The function expects a pointer to the primary i2c_client, a name
for the secondary address and an optional default address. The name is used
as a handle to specify which secondary address to get.

The default address is used as a fallback in case no secondary address
was explicitly specified. In case no secondary address and no default
address were specified the function returns NULL.

For now the function only supports look-up of the secondary address
from devicetree, but it can be extended in the future
to for example support board files and/or ACPI.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Michel Hautbois <jean-michel.hautbois@veo-labs.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2016-06-13 22:32:09 +02:00

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Generic device tree bindings for I2C busses
===========================================
This document describes generic bindings which can be used to describe I2C
busses in a device tree.
Required properties
-------------------
- #address-cells - should be <1>. Read more about addresses below.
- #size-cells - should be <0>.
- compatible - name of I2C bus controller following generic names
recommended practice.
For other required properties e.g. to describe register sets,
clocks, etc. check the binding documentation of the specific driver.
The cells properties above define that an address of children of an I2C bus
are described by a single value. This is usually a 7 bit address. However,
flags can be attached to the address. I2C_TEN_BIT_ADDRESS is used to mark a 10
bit address. It is needed to avoid the ambiguity between e.g. a 7 bit address
of 0x50 and a 10 bit address of 0x050 which, in theory, can be on the same bus.
Another flag is I2C_OWN_SLAVE_ADDRESS to mark addresses on which we listen to
be devices ourselves.
Optional properties
-------------------
These properties may not be supported by all drivers. However, if a driver
wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt the bindings below.
- clock-frequency
frequency of bus clock in Hz.
- i2c-scl-falling-time-ns
Number of nanoseconds the SCL signal takes to fall; t(f) in the I2C
specification.
- i2c-scl-internal-delay-ns
Number of nanoseconds the IP core additionally needs to setup SCL.
- i2c-scl-rising-time-ns
Number of nanoseconds the SCL signal takes to rise; t(r) in the I2C
specification.
- i2c-sda-falling-time-ns
Number of nanoseconds the SDA signal takes to fall; t(f) in the I2C
specification.
- interrupts
interrupts used by the device.
- interrupt-names
"irq" and "wakeup" names are recognized by I2C core, other names are
left to individual drivers.
- multi-master
states that there is another master active on this bus. The OS can use
this information to adapt power management to keep the arbitration awake
all the time, for example.
- wakeup-source
device can be used as a wakeup source.
- reg
I2C slave addresses
- reg-names
Names of map programmable addresses.
It can contain any map needing another address than default one.
Binding may contain optional "interrupts" property, describing interrupts
used by the device. I2C core will assign "irq" interrupt (or the very first
interrupt if not using interrupt names) as primary interrupt for the slave.
Also, if device is marked as a wakeup source, I2C core will set up "wakeup"
interrupt for the device. If "wakeup" interrupt name is not present in the
binding, then primary interrupt will be used as wakeup interrupt.