[PATCH v6 14/27] i2c: core: Introduce i2c_get_adapter_physdev()

Herve Codina
2026-03-25T14:40:30Z

The physical device providing an I2C adapter is the device that calls
i2c_add_adapter() or variants and i2c_del_adapter().

Most of the time this physical device is the parent of the adapter
device.

Exceptions exist with i2c muxes. Indeed, in case of i2c muxes, the
parent of the mux adapter device points to the adapter device the mux is
connected to instead of the physical of this mux adapter.

Introduce i2c_get_adapter_physdev() and a new physdev field in the
adapter structure in order to ease the adapter physical device
retrieval.

Signed-off-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
include/linux/i2c.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index 9c46147e3506..59214f0c84ec 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1919,6 +1919,22 @@ struct i2c_adapter *i2c_get_adapter_by_fwnode(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_get_adapter_by_fwnode);

+/**
+ * i2c_get_adapter_physdev() - Get the physical device of an adapter
+ * @adapter: the adapter to get the physical device from
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * Look up and return the &struct device corresponding to the device supplying
+ * this @adapter.
+ *
+ * The user must call put_device() once done with the physical device returned.
+ */
+struct device *i2c_get_adapter_physdev(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)
+{
+ return get_device(adapter->physdev ?: adapter->dev.parent);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_get_adapter_physdev);
+
static void i2c_parse_timing(struct device *dev, char *prop_name, u32 *cur_val_p,
u32 def_val, bool use_def)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h
index 20fd41b51d5c..dff04d20cafe 100644
--- a/include/linux/i2c.h
+++ b/include/linux/i2c.h
@@ -744,6 +744,7 @@ struct i2c_adapter {
int timeout; /* in jiffies */
int retries;
struct device dev; /* the adapter device */
+ struct device *physdev; /* the physical device */
unsigned long locked_flags; /* owned by the I2C core */
#define I2C_ALF_IS_SUSPENDED 0
#define I2C_ALF_SUSPEND_REPORTED 1
@@ -911,6 +912,8 @@ struct i2c_adapter *i2c_get_adapter(int nr);
void i2c_put_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap);
unsigned int i2c_adapter_depth(struct i2c_adapter *adapter);

+struct device *i2c_get_adapter_physdev(struct i2c_adapter *adap);
+
void i2c_parse_fw_timings(struct device *dev, struct i2c_timings *t, bool use_defaults);

/* Return the functionality mask */
--
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