From: swarren@wwwdotorg•org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: I2C dummy adapter driver ?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:49:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5306322C.8030703@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5305382E.9050902@gmail.com>
On 02/19/2014 04:03 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering whether it would be reasonable to create a generic
> Linux dummy I2C bus controller driver. The rationale behind it is
> there might be hardware configurations where I2C communication is
> handled by firmware but still it is useful to have I2C slave devices
^^^^^^^^
That doesn't sound like a dummy driver. Rather, it sounds like a driver
for the firmware(?) interface that's used to do the I2C transactions.
> instantiated by a Linux I2C bus adapter driver.
> It would be useful to have the common devicetree I2C binding scheme
> working regardless of where the I2C communication is handled - in
> firmware or by the host CPU.
>
> Currently we have a somewhat dummy I2C adapter driver at drivers/media/
> platform/exynos4-is/fimc-is-i2c.c. But it is going to be needed by
> multiple SoCs and I thought about separating it or creating a generic
> dummy I2C adapter driver.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-20 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-19 23:03 I2C dummy adapter driver ? Sylwester Nawrocki
2014-02-20 16:49 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2014-02-21 11:26 ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2014-02-21 5:57 ` Jassi Brar
2014-02-21 11:45 ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2014-02-28 6:07 ` Mark Brown
2014-03-04 11:38 ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2014-03-05 1:15 ` Mark Brown
2014-03-07 13:49 ` Sylwester Nawrocki
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