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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:13:36 +0200
From:   Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 5/8] dt-bindings: media: add TI DS90UB960 FPD-Link
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Hi Wolfram, Tomi,

On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:06:10 +0200
Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org> wrote:

> > +  i2c-alias-pool:
> > +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint16-array
> > +    description:
> > +      I2C alias pool is a pool of I2C addresses on the main I2C bus that can be
> > +      used to access the remote peripherals on the serializer's I2C bus. The
> > +      addresses must be available, not used by any other peripheral. Each
> > +      remote peripheral is assigned an alias from the pool, and transactions to
> > +      that address will be forwarded to the remote peripheral, with the address
> > +      translated to the remote peripheral's real address. This property is not
> > +      needed if there are no I2C addressable remote peripherals.  
> 
> After some initial discussion with Tomi on IRC, this question is
> probably more for Luca:
> 
> Why is "i2c-alias-pool" in the drivers binding and not a regular i2c
> binding? Same question for the implementation of the alias-pool
> handling. Shouldn't this be in the i2c-atr library? I'd think managing
> the list of aliases would look all the same in the drivers otherwise?

I think that this _was_ the plan, as it looks obviously cleaner, but
then we agreed that we should remove the pool entirely, so I didn't
bother moving it.

Best regards,
Luca

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Luca Ceresoli, Bootlin
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