[PATCH 07/12] dt-bindings: i2c: Add support for 'i2c-bus' subnode

Jon Hunter jonathanh at nvidia.com
Wed Jun 29 08:05:49 UTC 2016


On 28/06/16 22:32, Wolfram Sang wrote:
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>> For
>> example some Tegra devices have an I2C interface which may share its
>> pins with other devices and to share these pins subnodes for
>> representing these pins so they have be shared via the pinctrl framework
>> are needed.
> 
> I think the above sentence is hard to grasp. Can you split it into more
> sentences perhaps?

OK, yes does seem a bit of a mouthful.

>> +- i2c-bus
>> +	For I2C adapters that have child nodes that are a mixture of both I2C
>> +	devices and non-I2C devices (such as a pin controller), the 'i2c-bus'
> 
> I suggest to drop the phrase in the paranthesis. It is true for your
> case, but I don't think it's generic. So, it is not an obvious example
> like "Yes, sure, I see that a pin controller has I2C nodes and non-I2C
> nodes". At least for me, it was more like "It has what?"

OK, will drop that part.

Cheers
Jon

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