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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-gpio-challenge.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-gpio-challenge.txt index 1ac8ea8ade1d..bfeabb843941 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-gpio-challenge.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-arb-gpio-challenge.txt @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ the standard I2C multi-master rules. Using GPIOs is generally useful in the case where there is a device on the bus that has errata and/or bugs that makes standard multimaster mode not feasible. +Note that this scheme works well enough but has some downsides: +* It is nonstandard (not using standard I2C multimaster) +* Having two masters on a bus in general makes it relatively hard to debug + problems (hard to tell if i2c issues were caused by one master, another, or + some device on the bus). + Algorithm: |