Re: [PATCH i2c-next v7 1/5] dt-bindings: i2c: Add 'bus-timeout-ms' and '#retries' properties as common optional
From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 18:11:54 EST
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:45:03 -0700, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote:
> This commit adds 'bus-timeout-ms' and '#retries' properties as
> common optional properties that can be used for setting 'timeout'
> and 'retries' values of 'struct i2c_adapter'. With this patch, the
> bus timeout value and the master transfer retries count can be set
> through these properties at the registration time of an adapter.
> Still the values can be set by I2C_TIMEOUT and I2C_RETRIES ioctls
> on cdev at runtime too.
>
> These properties may not be supported by all drivers. However, if
> a driver wants to support one of them, it should adapt the
> bindings in this document.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c.txt | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>