Kconfig: Add I2C_DEVICES device group

Currently there is no way for a board model's Kconfig stanza to
say "I have an i2c bus which the user can plug an i2c device into,
build all the free-standing i2c devices". The Kconfig mechanism
for this is the "device group". Add an I2C_DEVICES group along
the same lines as the existing PCI_DEVICES. Simple free-standing
i2c devices which a user might plausibly want to be able to
plug in on the QEMU commandline should have
   default y if I2C_DEVICES
and board models which have an i2c bus that is user-accessible
should use
   imply I2C_DEVICES
to cause those pluggable devices to be built.

In this commit we mark only a fairly conservative set of i2c devices
as belonging to the I2C_DEVICES group: the simple sensors and RTCs
(not including PMBus devices or devices which need GPIO lines to be
connected).

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Hao Wu <wuhaotsh@google.com>
Message-id: 20220208155911.3408455-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/i2c/Kconfig b/hw/i2c/Kconfig
index 8217cb5041..9bb8870517 100644
--- a/hw/i2c/Kconfig
+++ b/hw/i2c/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 config I2C
     bool
 
+config I2C_DEVICES
+    # Device group for i2c devices which can reasonably be user-plugged
+    # to any board's i2c bus
+    bool
+
 config SMBUS
     bool
     select I2C