[PATCH 3/5] powerpc: Document device nodes for I2C devices.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri May 18 02:17:16 EST 2007


Kumar Gala wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/ 
>> Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
>> index b49ce16..67026ad 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
>> @@ -1257,6 +1257,8 @@ platforms are moved over to use the flattened- 
>> device-tree model.
>>
>>     e) I2C
>>
>> +   e1) I2C Controller
>> +
>>     Required properties :
>>
>>      - device_type : Should be "i2c"
>> @@ -1277,6 +1279,10 @@ platforms are moved over to use the  
>> flattened-device-tree model.
>>        a digital filter sampling rate register
>>      - fsl5200-clocking : boolean; if defined, indicated that this  
>> device
>>        uses the FSL 5200 clocking mechanism.
>> +    - #address-cells : should exist and be 1 if I2C devices are  
>> declared
>> +      in the device tree.
>> +    - #size-cells : should exist and be 0 if I2C devices are declared
>> +      in the device tree.
> 
> 
> As I've stated before, we need a bus number as well so we can handle  
> things like I2C switches and muxes.

Is this something we handle now?  If not, then it's really not within 
the scope of this patchset.  If so, how am I breaking it?

-Scott



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