Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 5 authors, 2022-03-16

Re: [RFCv3 2/6] i2c: add I2C Address Translator (ATR) support

From: Vaittinen, Matti <hidden>
Date: 2022-02-17 05:12:26
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On 2/16/22 10:40, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
On 08/02/22 12:16, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
quoted
On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 7:55 PM Luca Ceresoli [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
+config I2C_ATR
+       tristate "I2C Address Translator (ATR) support"
+       help
+         Enable support for I2C Address Translator (ATR) chips.
+
+         An ATR allows accessing multiple I2C busses from a single
+         physical bus via address translation instead of bus selection as
+         i2c-muxes do.
What would be the module name?
Isn't the module name written in Kconfig files just to avoid checkpatch
complain about "too few doc lines"? :) Oook, it's i2s-atr anyway.
Thanks Luca! I have always wondered why people keep adding this 
seemingly unnecessary boilerplate. Now I finally get the purpose!

--Matti

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