Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751748AbdGaVmR (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:42:17 -0400 Received: from sauhun.de ([88.99.104.3]:50948 "EHLO pokefinder.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751700AbdGaVmN (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:42:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:42:11 +0200 From: Wolfram Sang To: Boris Brezillon Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Przemyslaw Sroka , Arkadiusz Golec , Alan Douglas , Bartosz Folta , Damian Kos , Alicja Jurasik-Urbaniak , Jan Kotas , Cyprian Wronka , Alexandre Belloni , Thomas Petazzoni , Nishanth Menon , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC 2/5] i3c: Add core I3C infrastructure Message-ID: <20170731214211.GA11776@tetsubishi> References: <1501518290-5723-1-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> <1501518290-5723-3-git-send-email-boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> <20170731231509.77d1fba4@bbrezillon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170731231509.77d1fba4@bbrezillon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2335 Lines: 60 --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Actually, that's the first option I considered, but I3C and I2C are > really different. I'm not talking about the physical layer here, but > the way the bus has to be handled by the software layer. Actually, I > thing the I3C bus is philosophically closer to auto-discoverable busses > like USB than I2C or SPI. Acked-by: Wolfram Sang > Of course, I can move all the code in drivers/i2c/, but that won't > change the fact that I3C and I2C busses are completely different > with little to share between them. That wouldn't make sense. > To me, the I2C backward compatibility is just a nice feature that was > added to help people smoothly transition from mixed I3C busses with > both I2C and I3C devices connected to it (I2C devices being here > when no (affordable) equivalent exist in the I3C world) to pure I3C > busses with only I3C devices connected to it. Yeah, and it is still to be seen how good this really works. Devices which do clock stretching are out of the question. Probably everything which needs an interrupt as well? > This being said, I'd be happy if you prove me wrong and propose a > solution that allows us to extend the I2C framework to support I3C > without to much pain ;-). =46rom all I know, I don't see that coming. --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJZf6QyAAoJEBQN5MwUoCm2W+AQAKTyNdS0YU2kbP1thGl2b6Vo ye4IIrpYYduB4NhTI/oy45faAlTF9EvSzboN31T2npYNT6LjBPoPT33X8for7qQv aMmEoZxiOdgqtwpQEOO8Gi/u6OiA6kX1cUCBU5GIzlnLH2BM788tbC5NONxRL8NN A34Utk78jxuLssP09e4UKlfJVFkWy4ZpI/MV3mlpl/rzAIek3TlfrT9akmSYEh4V e38OG0pfupzcLl+QXL4HpkBeZjN/9a87iNvkyaaoirL5rrLmvuHAOnsV7BVlgDVh 2yHAmMHfZcGNOPSEqouGiY0juOHQ1g9zYXEdPSFz84/mVLIxd17/4bV7f5lX0+s4 hDwE7vMtEmn0bKuTFmeFCWlG6YhiRp5Vf3P8hOjQq69ZgyaXPCANpLxbFV1h1Mim ycl2BkVEkb942W3OSFvkS0eloQzFHrl/tKUV0aeo/rDdBp+LL1MhPg0IMxwNH9Ik kKSiHSCuw7gsKZfNZbvBLUfCRO26V7PvB9dyVH/rN1igVjDJDDVLvZfSKaxdzvBF EoybDHvC4zCiuKmgiSIlSh1Y968H7KdIq1p2yKtvTiEonh6AH61uLtByZpPxGDIM vaVLHpu0naXtBd3qLCw4owiFx6AEq/pAakcWwd7/sgYA8MvNoBx1IBpRbqU89WG3 xXIMLXqiVafPsTSxd0/Q =pqBS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--