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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2010-03-09 17:22:08 -0500 |
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| committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2010-03-09 17:22:08 -0500 |
| commit | e739cf1da48e841bc5d744a99764c1a668b4bdd2 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d39318bbbcdd66ad8cd34823ad9befb7af08b1f /Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol | |
| parent | e7b184f199fd3c80b618ec8244cbda70857d2779 (diff) | |
| parent | 57d54889cd00db2752994b389ba714138652e60c (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into for-2.6.35-incoming
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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol index 9df47441f0e..7c19d1a2bea 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol +++ b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol @@ -185,6 +185,22 @@ the protocol. All ARP communications use slave address 0x61 and require PEC checksums. +SMBus Alert +=========== + +SMBus Alert was introduced in Revision 1.0 of the specification. + +The SMBus alert protocol allows several SMBus slave devices to share a +single interrupt pin on the SMBus master, while still allowing the master +to know which slave triggered the interrupt. + +This is implemented the following way in the Linux kernel: +* I2C bus drivers which support SMBus alert should call + i2c_setup_smbus_alert() to setup SMBus alert support. +* I2C drivers for devices which can trigger SMBus alerts should implement + the optional alert() callback. + + I2C Block Transactions ====================== |