Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: i2c: Remove obsolete i2c.txt
From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Feb 23 2024 - 11:56:07 EST
On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 12:55 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Rob Herring wrote:
> > Everything in i2c.txt is covered by schemas/i2c/i2c-controller.yaml in
> > dtschema project, so remove i2c.txt and update links to it in the tree.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Differences to i2c.txt:
Thanks
> * In the schema, "clock-frequency" has a minimum of 1kHz and a maximum
> of 3MHz. Why? The specs do not say anything about a minimum freq and
> fastest speed mentioned in the docs is 5Mhz (Ultra fast mode).
IIRC, the high speed mode originally topped out at 3MHz. I guess
that's been revised.
We can drop the minimum.
> * new binding "i2c-scl-clk-low-timeout-us" has a description which I do
> not understand. What is a waiting state?
Shrug. May have to look at the MPC h/w that uses the property.
>
> * new binding "no-detect" is broken. At the least, it should be named
> something like "bus-fully-described" and then the OS can decide to
> leave out auto-detection mechanisms. If you are interested in the
> latter, you can simply disable class based instantiation on the host
> controller. No need to describe this in DT.
I've reverted the property now.
Rob