[PATCH-v5 1/5] Documentation: binding: add new property 'disable_after_xfer' to i2c-pxa
Vaibhav Hiremath
vaibhav.hiremath at linaro.org
Tue Aug 4 23:34:25 PDT 2015
On Monday 27 July 2015 07:39 PM, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 06:11:02PM +0530, Vaibhav Hiremath wrote:
>> Driver will now supports enable/disable across msg xfer, which user
>> can control it by new DT property -
>>
>> i2c-disable-after-xfer : If set, driver will disable I2C module after msg
>> xfer and enable it back before xfer.
>
> If this is a new property specific to this Marvell part, it needs
> the vendor prefix as in mrvl,i2c-disable-after-xfer
>
We discussed about this, I think in V1 or V2. Decided to use generic
name, as feature (in turn property) could be used by other drivers as
well.
> Or, it couldn't hurt to start an i2c.txt for generic i2c bindings
> and store it there as this and others later in this series would
> reasonably apply to other controllers.
>
Yeah, we could start i2c.txt, probably better to have separate new
patch all together.
Thanks,
Vaibhav
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