Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] of: Add nvidia,controller-id property to Tegra I2C bindings

[Thierry Reding]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 02:19:35PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/13/2014 06:41 AM, Mikko Perttunen wrote:
> >Sometimes, hardware blocks want to issue requests to devices
> >connected to I2C buses by itself. In such case, the bus the
> >target device resides on must be configured into a register.
> >For this purpose, each I2C controller has a defined ID known
> >by the hardware. Add a property for these IDs to the device tree
> >bindings, so that drivers can know what ID to write to a hardware
> >register when configuring a block that sends I2C messages autonomously.
> 
> >diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/nvidia,tegra20-i2c.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/nvidia,tegra20-i2c.txt
> 
> >+Optional properties:
> >+- nvidia,controller-id: ID of controller when referred to in
> >+                        hardware registers.
> 
> I'd prefer to put this information into the thermal trip node, since this
> represents what ID the PMC uses to communicate with the I2C controller, and
> there's no absolute guarantee that multiple clients that communicate
> directly with an I2C controller would use the same numbering scheme.
> 
> If that doesn't work, can be at least name this nvidia,pmc-controller-id or
> nvidia,id-in-pmc so that if there are different numbering schemes, there's a
> clear path to represent this in different properties without conflicting
> names?

This is the ID of the controller used internally by the documentation.
And as far as I can tell every aspect of the documentation refers to the
controllers by the same ID (clocks, interrupts, ...). The PMC uses this
same numbering scheme. That makes the ID about as canonical as it gets,
so the extra prefix isn't warranted in my opinion.

I'd argue that if ever there was a case where something was referring to
the controller using a different ID then that should be considered the
oddball and get special treatment.

Thierry

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