linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH-v5 1/5] Documentation: binding: add new property 'disable_after

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Message-ID: <55C1AE71.3010700@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed, 05 Aug 2015 12:04:25 +0530
From:	Vaibhav Hiremath <vaibhav.hiremath@...aro.org>
To:	Matt Porter <mporter@...sulko.com>
CC:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	wsa@...-dreams.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, robert.jarzmik@...e.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v5 1/5] Documentation: binding: add new property 'disable_after_xfer'
 to i2c-pxa



On Monday 27 July 2015 07:39 PM, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 06:11:02PM +0530, Vaibhav Hiremath wrote:
>> Driver will now supports enable/disable across msg xfer, which user
>> can control it by new DT property -
>>
>> i2c-disable-after-xfer : If set, driver will disable I2C module after msg
>>   xfer and enable it back before xfer.
>
> If this is a new property specific to this Marvell part, it needs
> the vendor prefix as in mrvl,i2c-disable-after-xfer
>

We discussed about this, I think in V1 or V2. Decided to use generic
name, as feature (in turn property) could be used by other drivers as
well.

> Or, it couldn't hurt to start an i2c.txt for generic i2c bindings
> and store it there as this and others later in this series would
> reasonably apply to other controllers.
>

Yeah, we could start i2c.txt, probably better to have separate new
patch all together.


Thanks,
Vaibhav
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