Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: i2c: add property to avoid device detection

Peter Rosin
2022-05-16T08:07:29Z

[Now with the proper email to Luca, sorry about that...]

2022-05-16 at 09:57, Peter Rosin wrote:
> 2022-05-14 at 16:26, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 10:50:45AM +0200, Vincent Whitchurch wrote:
>>> When drivers with ->detect callbacks are loaded, the I2C core does a
>>> bunch of transactions to try to probe for these devices, regardless of
>>> whether they are specified in the devicetree or not. (This only happens
>>> on I2C controllers whose drivers enable the I2C_CLASS* flags, but this
>>> is the case for generic drivers like i2c-gpio.)
>>>
>>> These kinds of transactions are unnecessary on systems where the
>>> devicetree specifies all the devices on the I2C bus, so add a property
>>> to indicate that the devicetree description of the hardware is complete
>>> and thus allow this discovery to be disabled.
>> Hmm, I don't think the name is fitting. "no-detect" is the desired
>> behaviour but a proper description is more like "bus-complete" or
>> something?
>>
>> That aside, I am not sure we should handle this at DT level. Maybe we
>> should better change the GPIO driver to not populate a class if we have
>> a firmware node?
> We also have the somewhat related address translation case (which I
> still need to look at). [Adding Luca to Cc]
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220206115939.3091265-1-luca@lucaceresoli.net/
>
> If a bus is "bus-complete", then address translation could use
> any unused address instead of from an explicit list of addresses.
> I.e. the "i2c-alias-pool" in the binding in patch 4/6 of that
> series could be made optional if the bus is "bus-complete".
>
> Not sure how much value there is in that?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter