Re: [PATCH v16 1/3] dt-bindings: i2c: aspeed: support for AST2600-i2cv2

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 11/09/2025 11:03, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After a bit of a chat with Ryan, some updates on this:
> 
>> The question was more: it sounds like you're switching between
>> *fundamentally different* hardware units with the mux switch - not just
>> a different register interface for the same peripheral hardware. Is that
>> the case?
> 
> Turns out: no. The controller core is the same, but what gets muxed
> in/out is more of a compatibility interface. This provides an
> ast2500-like register set to the ast2600 i2c peripheral.


If you had two separate bindings, how would you represent it in DTS? Two
device nodes, right? That's confusing, because there is only one device.

If the device can present or change its programming interface, it is
still that device, so still one binding for it. And that device driver
will handle both (or one) programming models.

I remember now the problem we talk about, but I don't get what exactly
you want to solve/discuss. Anyway any discussion should be about newest
patch, not something from February, so if you still have concerns please
raise them at v18 (or whichever version is now).

Best regards,
Krzysztof