On 02/13/2013 05:38 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Stephen,
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 02/13/2013 11:02 AM, Doug Anderson wrote:
>>> We need to use the i2c-arbitrator to talk to any of the devices on i2c
>>> bus 4 on exynos5250-snow so that we don't confuse the embedded
>>> controller (EC). Add the i2c-arbitrator to the device tree. As we
>>> add future devices (keyboard, sbs, tps65090) we'll add them on top of
>>> this.
>>>
>>> The arbitrated bus is numbered 104 simply as a convenience to make it
>>> easier for people poking around to guess that it might have something
>>> to do with the physical bus 4.
>>>
>>> The addition is split between the cros5250-common and the snow device
>>> tree file since not all cros5250-class devices use arbitration.
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250-snow.dts
>>> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250-snow.dts
>>
>>> + i2c-arbitrator {
>>> + compatible = "i2c-arbitrator";
>>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>>> + #size-cells = <0>;
>>
>>> + /* Use ID 104 as a hint that we're on physical bus 4 */
>>> + i2c_104: i2c@0 {
>>
>> Does something use that hint? It sounds a little odd.
>
> The i2c bus numbering patches will end up creating "/dev/i2c-104".
Oh sorry, I see this is just the alias doing it's job. I'd misread that
as the reg value being 104 and driving the bus ID.
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