Re: [PATCH 2/3] spi / ACPI: add ACPI enumeration support

[Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 01:59:23PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, November 05, 2012 01:23:50 PM Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:02:19 +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 11:56:39AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > I've got practical systems where there are multiple buses physically
> > > > connected, though in practice almost always only one is actually used at
> > > > runtime when it's I2C and SPI there are some systems (usually with other
> > > > buses) where you might want to use more than one bus.  Not sure those
> > > > buses will fit in here though.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I just went through DSDT table of one of our machines and found a
> > > device that actually has two I2CSerialBus connectors (and those are to the
> > > same controller). What I'm not sure is that is it used to select between
> > > two different addresses or doest the device really have two physical I2C
> > > connections.
> > 
> > Neither would make sense from a hardware perspective.
> 
> Well, interesting. :-)

It looks like some PMICs for example have two I2C control interfaces, like
TI's TWL6030 if I'm not mistaken. If both are put behind the same I2C
controller with different address, you have the situation like above.