From: Jean Delvare Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:33:07 +0000 (+0100) Subject: i2c: Fix device name for 10-bit slave address X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cbb44514048a250647c6c6b3df27ff62cb71f7d5;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git i2c: Fix device name for 10-bit slave address 10-bit addresses overlap with traditional 7-bit addresses, leading in device name collisions. Add an arbitrary offset to 10-bit addresses to prevent this collision. The offset was chosen so that the address is still easily recognizable. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Wolfram Sang --- diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/ten-bit-addresses b/Documentation/i2c/ten-bit-addresses index e9890709c508..cdfe13901b99 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/ten-bit-addresses +++ b/Documentation/i2c/ten-bit-addresses @@ -1,22 +1,24 @@ The I2C protocol knows about two kinds of device addresses: normal 7 bit addresses, and an extended set of 10 bit addresses. The sets of addresses do not intersect: the 7 bit address 0x10 is not the same as the 10 bit -address 0x10 (though a single device could respond to both of them). You -select a 10 bit address by adding an extra byte after the address -byte: - S Addr7 Rd/Wr .... -becomes - S 11110 Addr10 Rd/Wr -S is the start bit, Rd/Wr the read/write bit, and if you count the number -of bits, you will see the there are 8 after the S bit for 7 bit addresses, -and 16 after the S bit for 10 bit addresses. +address 0x10 (though a single device could respond to both of them). -WARNING! The current 10 bit address support is EXPERIMENTAL. There are -several places in the code that will cause SEVERE PROBLEMS with 10 bit -addresses, even though there is some basic handling and hooks. Also, -almost no supported adapter handles the 10 bit addresses correctly. +I2C messages to and from 10-bit address devices have a different format. +See the I2C specification for the details. -As soon as a real 10 bit address device is spotted 'in the wild', we -can and will add proper support. Right now, 10 bit address devices -are defined by the I2C protocol, but we have never seen a single device -which supports them. +The current 10 bit address support is minimal. It should work, however +you can expect some problems along the way: +* Not all bus drivers support 10-bit addresses. Some don't because the + hardware doesn't support them (SMBus doesn't require 10-bit address + support for example), some don't because nobody bothered adding the + code (or it's there but not working properly.) Software implementation + (i2c-algo-bit) is known to work. +* Some optional features do not support 10-bit addresses. This is the + case of automatic detection and instantiation of devices by their, + drivers, for example. +* Many user-space packages (for example i2c-tools) lack support for + 10-bit addresses. + +Note that 10-bit address devices are still pretty rare, so the limitations +listed above could stay for a long time, maybe even forever if nobody +needs them to be fixed. diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c index 131079a3e292..1e5606185b4f 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c @@ -539,8 +539,10 @@ i2c_new_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_board_info const *info) client->dev.type = &i2c_client_type; client->dev.of_node = info->of_node; + /* For 10-bit clients, add an arbitrary offset to avoid collisions */ dev_set_name(&client->dev, "%d-%04x", i2c_adapter_id(adap), - client->addr); + client->addr | ((client->flags & I2C_CLIENT_TEN) + ? 0xa000 : 0)); status = device_register(&client->dev); if (status) goto out_err;