[PATCH v4 1/2] i2c: add binding to mark a bus as supporting SMBus-Alert
Alain Volmat
alain.volmat at foss.st.com
Wed May 5 06:14:38 PDT 2021
Since SMBus-Alert is an optional feature of SMBUS which
requires an additional pin, the smbus binding cannot be
used to indicate its support.
Add an additional smbus-alert binding specific for it and
update the description text of smbus to avoid mentioning
SMBus-Alert
Signed-off-by: Alain Volmat <alain.volmat at foss.st.com>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt
index df41f72afc87..b864916e087f 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt
@@ -89,8 +89,11 @@ wants to support one of the below features, it should adapt these bindings.
- smbus
states that additional SMBus restrictions and features apply to this bus.
- Examples of features are SMBusHostNotify and SMBusAlert. Examples of
- restrictions are more reserved addresses and timeout definitions.
+ An example of feature is SMBusHostNotify. Examples of restrictions are
+ more reserved addresses and timeout definitions.
+
+- smbus-alert
+ states that the optional SMBus-Alert feature apply to this bus.
Required properties (per child device)
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--
2.7.4
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