Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: Add sbs-manager device tree node documentation
From: Peter Rosin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-26 22:35:17
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linux-acpi, linux-i2c, linux-pm
From: Peter Rosin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-26 22:35:17
Also in:
linux-acpi, linux-i2c, linux-pm
On 2016-06-24 19:50, Rob Herring wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 09:07:15PM +0200, Karl-Heinz Schneider wrote:quoted
This patch adds device tree documentation for the sbs-manager
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+ +From OS view the device is basically an i2c-mux used to communicate with up to +four smart battery devices at address 0xb. The driver actually implements this +behaviour. So standard i2c-mux nodes can be used to register up to four slave +batteries. Channels will be numerated as 1, 2, 4 and 8. + +Example: + +batman@0a { + compatible = "sbs,sbs-manager"; + reg = <0x0a>; + sbsm,i2c-retry-count = <3>; + #address-cells = <1>; + #size-cells = <0>; + + channel1@1 {channel@1 Do we have a standard node name for mux nodes? If not, we should.
No name is enforced by the i2c mux support code, but I think "i2c" dominates, and quite possibly it is the only documented name? Cheers, Peter