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1 Kernel driver gpio-i2cmux
3 Author: Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>
5 Description
6 -----------
8 gpio-i2cmux is an i2c mux driver providing access to I2C bus segments
9 from a master I2C bus and a hardware MUX controlled through GPIO pins.
11 E.G.:
13   ----------              ----------  Bus segment 1   - - - - -
14  |          | SCL/SDA    |          |-------------- |           |
15  |          |------------|          |
16  |          |            |          | Bus segment 2 |           |
17  |  Linux   | GPIO 1..N  |   MUX    |---------------   Devices
18  |          |------------|          |               |           |
19  |          |            |          | Bus segment M
20  |          |            |          |---------------|           |
21   ----------              ----------                  - - - - -
23 SCL/SDA of the master I2C bus is multiplexed to bus segment 1..M
24 according to the settings of the GPIO pins 1..N.
26 Usage
27 -----
29 gpio-i2cmux uses the platform bus, so you need to provide a struct
30 platform_device with the platform_data pointing to a struct
31 gpio_i2cmux_platform_data with the I2C adapter number of the master
32 bus, the number of bus segments to create and the GPIO pins used
33 to control it. See include/linux/gpio-i2cmux.h for details.
35 E.G. something like this for a MUX providing 4 bus segments
36 controlled through 3 GPIO pins:
38 #include <linux/gpio-i2cmux.h>
39 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
41 static const unsigned myboard_gpiomux_gpios[] = {
42         AT91_PIN_PC26, AT91_PIN_PC25, AT91_PIN_PC24
45 static const unsigned myboard_gpiomux_values[] = {
46         0, 1, 2, 3
49 static struct gpio_i2cmux_platform_data myboard_i2cmux_data = {
50         .parent         = 1,
51         .base_nr        = 2, /* optional */
52         .values         = myboard_gpiomux_values,
53         .n_values       = ARRAY_SIZE(myboard_gpiomux_values),
54         .gpios          = myboard_gpiomux_gpios,
55         .n_gpios        = ARRAY_SIZE(myboard_gpiomux_gpios),
56         .idle           = 4, /* optional */
59 static struct platform_device myboard_i2cmux = {
60         .name           = "gpio-i2cmux",
61         .id             = 0,
62         .dev            = {
63                 .platform_data  = &myboard_i2cmux_data,
64         },