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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:39:16 +0100
From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] SLIMbus: Device management on SLIMbus
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On 17/06/15 02:45, Sagar Dharia wrote:
> SLIMbus (Serial Low Power Interchip Media Bus) is a specification
> developed by MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) alliance.
> SLIMbus is a 2-wire implementation, which is used to communicate with
> peripheral components like audio-codec.
> SLIMbus uses Time-Division-Multiplexing to accommodate multiple data
> channels, and control channel. Control channel has messages to do
> device-enumeration, messages to send/receive control-data to/from
> slimbus devices, messages for port/channel management, and messages to
> do bandwidth allocation.
> The framework supports multiple instances of the bus (1 controller per
> bus), and multiple slave devices per controller.
>
> This patch does device enumeration, logical address assignment,
> informing device when the device reports present/absent etc.
> Reporting present may need the driver to do the needful (e.g. turning
> on voltage regulators powering the device). So probe is called
> if the device is added to board-info list for a controller.
> Additionally device is probed when it reports present if that device
> doesn't need any such steps mentioned above.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sagar Dharia <sdharia@codeaurora.org>

I think I was not as fast as you sent the v2 :-)
However my comments on v1 patcset mostly still applies to v2 as well.

--srini
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