Re: [RFC v2 3/4] i2c: mux: demux-pinctrl: add driver

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Jan 06 2016 - 09:20:54 EST


Hi Wolfram,

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This driver allows an I2C bus to switch between multiple masters. This
> is not hot-swichting because connected I2C slaves will be

switching

> re-instantiated. It is meant to select the best I2C core at runtime once
> the task is known. Example: Prefer i2c-gpio over another I2C core
> because of HW errata affetcing your use case.

affecting

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,276 @@
> +/*
> + * Pinctrl based I2C DeMultiplexer
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2015-16 by Wolfram Sang, Sang Engineering <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> + * Copyright (C) 2015-16 by Renesas Electronics Corporation
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> + * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
> + * Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
> + *
> + * See the bindings doc for DTS setup.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/i2c.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/mutex.h>
> +#include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/pinctrl/consumer.h>
> +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> +#include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/sysfs.h>
> +
> +struct i2c_demux_pinctrl_chan {
> + struct device_node *parent_np;
> + struct i2c_adapter *parent_adap;
> + struct of_changeset chgset;
> +};
> +
> +struct i2c_demux_pinctrl_priv {
> + int cur_chan;
> + int num_chan;

This is always positive, so you can make num_chan and a few loop counters
unsigned.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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