1 Kernel driver i2c-mux-gpio
3 Author: Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard@barco.com>
8 i2c-mux-gpio 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.
13 ---------- ---------- Bus segment 1 - - - - -
14 | | SCL/SDA | |-------------- | |
16 | | | | Bus segment 2 | |
17 | Linux | GPIO 1..N | MUX |--------------- Devices
18 | |------------| | | |
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.
29 i2c-mux-gpio uses the platform bus, so you need to provide a struct
30 platform_device with the platform_data pointing to a struct
31 i2c_mux_gpio_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/i2c-mux-gpio.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/i2c-mux-gpio.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[] = {
49 static struct i2c_mux_gpio_platform_data myboard_i2cmux_data = {
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 = "i2c-mux-gpio",
63 .platform_data = &myboard_i2cmux_data,
67 If you don't know the absolute GPIO pin numbers at registration time,
68 you can instead provide a chip name (.chip_name) and relative GPIO pin
69 numbers, and the i2c-mux-gpio driver will do the work for you,
70 including deferred probing if the GPIO chip isn't immediately
76 When registering your i2c-mux-gpio device, you should pass the number
77 of any GPIO pin it uses as the device ID. This guarantees that every
78 instance has a different ID.
80 Alternatively, if you don't need a stable device name, you can simply
81 pass PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO as the device ID, and the platform core will
82 assign a dynamic ID to your device. If you do not know the absolute
83 GPIO pin numbers at registration time, this is even the only option.