RE: [PATCH v4 3/5] i2c: designware: Add slave definitions

[Luis de Oliveira]

Hi all,

The slave address could be set by the I2C slave backend so I can't use it to setup the controller. 
A boolean property was my initial approach then Andy and Wolfram Sang suggested the use of compatible strings and later It was suggested to use a property to select mode but I can do it again if it's the best way. 
Can you please tell me where should it be documented? 

Luis

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From: Rob Herring [mailto:robh@xxxxxxxxxx] 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] i2c: designware: Add slave definitions

On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 05:55:50PM +0000, Luis Oliveira wrote:
> - Add slave definitions to i2c-designware-core
> - Changes in Kconfig to auto-enable I2C_SLAVE when compiling the 
> modules
> - Add mode property to designware-core.txt that enable the "slave" selection:
>   - "mode" is an optional property that could be "slave" or "master"
>   - if "mode" is not set the block is considered master by default
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis Oliveira <lolivei@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes V3->V4: (Andy Shevchenko)
> - created a common property for modes
> - placed the generic dependency first
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-designware.txt     |  4 ++++
>  drivers/i2c/busses/Kconfig                         |  1 +
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-common.c         |  6 +++++
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-core.h           | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-designware.txt 
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-designware.txt
> index fee26dc3e858..8ed2b532cd54 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-designware.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-designware.txt
> @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Optional properties :
>   - i2c-sda-falling-time-ns : should contain the SDA falling time in nanoseconds.
>     This value which is by default 300ns is used to compute the tHIGH period.
>  
> + - mode : should be either:
> +           - "master" to setup the hardware block as a I2C master
> +           - "slave" to setup the hardware block as a I2C slave

This should be documented in a common location. Can't it be a boolean to enable slave mode? Or don't you need to set the slave address? That could be enough to enable slave mode and there's already one example doing that.

Rob