From 30851a7c2155d0b321485e66386ea99191d8b3f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:27:40 +0200 Subject: Documentation: i2c: slave-interface: add note for driver development Make it clear that adding slave support shall not disable master functionality. We can have both, so we should. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> --- Documentation/i2c/slave-interface | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/i2c') diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/slave-interface b/Documentation/i2c/slave-interface index 80807adb8ded..7e2a228f21bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/slave-interface +++ b/Documentation/i2c/slave-interface @@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ If you want to add slave support to the bus driver: * Catch the slave interrupts and send appropriate i2c_slave_events to the backend. +Note that most hardware supports being master _and_ slave on the same bus. So, +if you extend a bus driver, please make sure that the driver supports that as +well. In almost all cases, slave support does not need to disable the master +functionality. + Check the i2c-rcar driver as an example. -- cgit v1.2.1