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authorVijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com>2019-12-11 19:56:04 +0100
committerCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2019-12-11 20:21:36 +0100
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drivers: ipmi: Support raw i2c packet in IPMB
Many IPMB devices don't support smbus protocol and this driver only supports the smbus protocol at the moment. Added support for the i2c protocol as well. There will be a variable "i2c-protocol" passed by the device tree or ACPI table which determines whether the protocol is i2c or smbus. Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@mellanox.com> Message-Id: <20191211185604.1266063-1-vijaykhemka@fb.com> [IPMB.txt had moved to driver-api/ipmb.rst, I adjusted] Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst
index 3ec3baed84c4..209c49e05116 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst
@@ -71,9 +71,13 @@ b) Example for device tree::
ipmb@10 {
compatible = "ipmb-dev";
reg = <0x10>;
+ i2c-protocol;
};
};
+If xmit of data to be done using raw i2c block vs smbus
+then "i2c-protocol" needs to be defined as above.
+
2) Manually from Linux::
modprobe ipmb-dev-int