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

Vincent Whitchurch
2022-04-12T10:09:26Z

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.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
---

Notes:
v2:
- Change subject prefix
- Reword description of property

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt
index fc3dd7ec0445..960d1d5c9362 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt these bindings.
this information to adapt power management to keep the arbitration awake
all the time, for example. Can not be combined with 'single-master'.

+- no-detect
+ states that no other devices are present on this bus other than the
+ ones listed in the devicetree.
+
- pinctrl
add extra pinctrl to configure SCL/SDA pins to GPIO function for bus
recovery, call it "gpio" or "recovery" (deprecated) state
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