Re: [RFC 09/10] i2c: mux: add support for fwnode

From: Clément Léger
Date: Tue Feb 22 2022 - 03:54:51 EST


Le Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:55:25 +0200,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 05:26:51PM +0100, Clément Léger wrote:
> > Modify i2c_mux_add_adapter() to use with fwnode API to allow creating
> > mux adapters with fwnode based devices. This allows to have a node
> > independent support for i2c muxes.
>
> I^2C muxes have their own description for DT and ACPI platforms, I'm not sure
> swnode should be used here at all. Just upload a corresponding SSDT overlay or
> DT overlay depending on the platform. Can it be achieved?
>

Problem is that this PCIe card can be plugged either in a X86 platform
using ACPI or on a ARM one with device-tree. So it means I should have
two "identical" descriptions for each platforms.

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Clément Léger,
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineer at Bootlin
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