Re: [PATCH RFC] I2C: i2c-smbus: add device tree support

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Apr 13 2016 - 13:58:56 EST


On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Andrea Merello
<andrea.merello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> According to Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol, a smbus controller driver
> that wants to hook-in smbus extensions support, can call
> i2c_setup_smbus_alert(). There are very few drivers that are currently
> doing this.
>
> However the i2c-smbus module can also work with any
> smbus-extensions-unaware I2C controller, as long as we provide an extra
> IRQ line connected to the I2C bus ALARM signal.
>
> This patch makes it possible to go this way via DT. Note that the DT node
> will indeed describe a (little) piece of HW, that is the routing of the
> ALARM signal to an IRQ line (so it seems a fair DT use to me, but RFC).
>
> Note that AFAICT, by design, i2c-smbus module pretends to be an I2C slave
> with address 0x0C (that is the alarm response address), and IMHO this is
> quite consistent with usage in the DT as a I2C child node.

> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-smbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-smbus.c

> @@ -137,20 +138,29 @@ static int smbalert_probe(struct i2c_client *ara,
> struct i2c_smbus_alert_setup *setup = dev_get_platdata(&ara->dev);
> struct i2c_smbus_alert *alert;
> struct i2c_adapter *adapter = ara->adapter;
> + struct device_node *of_node = ara->dev.of_node;

Perhaps fwnode_handle ?

> int res;
> + int irq_type;
>
> alert = devm_kzalloc(&ara->dev, sizeof(struct i2c_smbus_alert),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!alert)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - alert->alert_edge_triggered = setup->alert_edge_triggered;
> - alert->irq = setup->irq;
> + if (setup) {
> + alert->alert_edge_triggered = setup->alert_edge_triggered;
> + alert->irq = setup->irq;
> + } else if (of_node) {
> + alert->irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(of_node, 0);
> + irq_type = irq_get_trigger_type(alert->irq);
> + alert->alert_edge_triggered = (irq_type & IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH);
> + }

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko