[PATCH] ARM: dts: rockchip: add i2c-bus subnode to edp

[Randy Li]

On 10/21/2016 04:25 PM, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2016, 15:47:56 CEST schrieb Tomeu Vizoso:
>> On 10/20/2016 03:45 PM, Heiko Stübner wrote:
>>> Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2016, 10:07:25 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso:
>>>> Add an empty 'i2c-bus' subnode to the edp node just so that the I2C core
>>>> doesn't attemp to parse the 'ports' subnode as containing i2c devices.
>>>>
>>>> This is to avoid spurious failure messages such as:
>>>>
>>>> i2c i2c-6: of_i2c: modalias failure on /dp at ff970000/ports
>>>
>>> On the one hand, the edp really has an i2c bus - with its only client the
>>> EDID listening at 0x50 (and maybe 0x30).
>>>
>>> On the other hand, adding an empty bus to the (implementation independent)
>>> devicetree just to make the Linux i2c subsystem happy sounds heavily like
>>> a
>>> implementation-specific hack, as the edp i2c bus doesn't leak into the
>>> outside world otherwise.
>>>
>>> I guess this empty i2c bus not being part of the binding document points
>>> heavily into the implementation-specific corner :-) .
>>>
>>> My short search on other patches touching this didn't reveal anything but
>>> maybe this was already discussed somewhere and found to be ok?
>>
>> Here it is:
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-tegra/msg27862.html
>
> thanks ... I'm still not sure about the placeholder though, aka needing an
> undocumented subnode to make a Linux error message silent.
No it won't and the other error message. I have enabled the i2c debug, 
and would report what it is going on.
Just it is too late yesterday, I have no time to report that.
>
> In the thread you pointed to I also did not see any dt-maintainer involvement
> pointing one way or another, but spinics is often not easy to navigate
> threads, so I may have missed that.
>
>
>>> Another option could be to just make of_i2c_register_device silent if
>>> of_modalias_node returns -ENODEV?
>
>
> Heiko
>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com>
>>>> Cc: Randy Li <randy.li at rock-chips.com>
>>>> Cc: Jon Hunter <jonathanh at nvidia.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288.dtsi | 5 +++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288.dtsi
>>>> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288.dtsi
>>>> index 2f814ffeb605..94f4b7eecca2 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288.dtsi
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288.dtsi
>>>> @@ -1075,6 +1075,11 @@
>>>>
>>>>  				};
>>>>  			
>>>>  			};
>>>>  		
>>>>  		};
>>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +		i2c-bus {
>>>> +			#address-cells = <1>;
>>>> +			#size-cells = <0>;
>>>> +		};
>>>>
>>>>  	};
>>>>  	
>>>>  	hdmi: hdmi at ff980000 {
>
>
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