Re: [PATCH 03/17] ARM: dts: r8a7742: Add I2C and IIC support

From: Lad, Prabhakar
Date: Mon May 18 2020 - 04:59:32 EST


Hi Wolfram,

Thank for the review.

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:10 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 04:08:43PM +0100, Lad Prabhakar wrote:
> > Add the I2C[0-3] and IIC[0-3] devices nodes to the R8A7742 device tree.
> >
> > Automatic transmission for PMIC control is not available on IIC3 hence
> > compatible string "renesas,rcar-gen2-iic" and "renesas,rmobile-iic" is
> > not added to iic3 node.
>
> Makes sense.
>
> However, both versions (with and without automatic transmission) are
> described with the same "renesas,iic-r8a7742" compatible. Is it possible
> to detect the reduced variant at runtime somehow?
>
I couldn't find anything the manual that would be useful to detect at runtime.

> My concern is that the peculiarity of this SoC might be forgotten if we
> describe it like this and ever add "automatic transmissions" somewhen.
>
Agreed.

Cheers,
--Prabhakar