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From: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
To: <wsa@kernel.org>
Cc: <kernel@axis.com>,
	Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>,
	<linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>, <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	<krzk+dt@kernel.org>, <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] i2c: add binding to prevent device detection
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:16:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220405121627.1560949-2-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220405121627.1560949-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>

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 allow them to be disabled.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
---
 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..5f7bdf4851e8 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 the system should not attempt to automatically detect
+	devices which are not explicitly specified as child nodes.
+
 - pinctrl
 	add extra pinctrl to configure SCL/SDA pins to GPIO function for bus
 	recovery, call it "gpio" or "recovery" (deprecated) state
-- 
2.34.1


  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-05 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-05 12:16 [PATCH 0/2] i2c: Allow disabling auto detection via devicetree Vincent Whitchurch
2022-04-05 12:16 ` Vincent Whitchurch [this message]
2022-04-05 13:57   ` [PATCH 1/2] i2c: add binding to prevent device detection Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-04-05 14:12     ` Vincent Whitchurch
2022-04-06  7:26       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-04-06  7:55         ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2022-04-05 12:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] i2c: core: support no-detect property Vincent Whitchurch

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