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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl82
2 files changed, 132 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
index 38f88b6ae40..fd2ef4d29b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
@@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ X!Ilib/string.c
!Elib/cmdline.c
</sect1>
- <sect1><title>CRC Functions</title>
+ <sect1 id="crc"><title>CRC Functions</title>
+!Elib/crc7.c
!Elib/crc16.c
+!Elib/crc-itu-t.c
!Elib/crc32.c
!Elib/crc-ccitt.c
</sect1>
@@ -643,4 +645,70 @@ X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c
!Edrivers/spi/spi.c
</chapter>
+ <chapter id="i2c">
+ <title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title>
+
+ <para>
+ I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C")
+ is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is
+ widely used where low data rate communications suffice.
+ Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another
+ name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus.
+ I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving
+ board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues.
+ Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up
+ to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet
+ found wide use.
+ I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to
+ arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to
+ synchronize clocks from slower clients.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master
+ side of bus interactions, not the slave side.
+ The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
+ and two kinds of device.
+ An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds
+ to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and
+ exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing
+ each I2C bus segment it manages.
+ On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a
+ <structname>struct i2c_client</structname>. Those devices will
+ be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>,
+ which should follow the standard Linux driver model.
+ (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.)
+ There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at
+ this writing all such functions are usable only from task context.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus
+ systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are
+ tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages
+ and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most
+ SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol
+ options that an I2C controller will.
+ There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations,
+ either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to
+ i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations.
+ </para>
+
+!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h
+!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info
+!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+ </chapter>
+
+ <chapter id="splice">
+ <title>splice API</title>
+ <para>)
+ splice is a method for moving blocks of data around inside the
+ kernel, without continually transferring it between the kernel
+ and user space.
+ </para>
+!Iinclude/linux/splice.h
+!Ffs/splice.c
+ </chapter>
+
+
</book>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl
index 45cad23efef..2de84dc195a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl
@@ -352,49 +352,93 @@ entry->write_proc = write_proc_foo;
<funcsynopsis>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>read_func</function></funcdef>
- <paramdef>char* <parameter>page</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>char* <parameter>buffer</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>char** <parameter>start</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>off_t <parameter>off</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>count</parameter></paramdef>
- <paramdef>int* <parameter>eof</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>int* <parameter>peof</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>void* <parameter>data</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
<para>
The read function should write its information into the
- <parameter>page</parameter>. For proper use, the function
- should start writing at an offset of
- <parameter>off</parameter> in <parameter>page</parameter> and
- write at most <parameter>count</parameter> bytes, but because
- most read functions are quite simple and only return a small
- amount of information, these two parameters are usually
- ignored (it breaks pagers like <literal>more</literal> and
- <literal>less</literal>, but <literal>cat</literal> still
- works).
+ <parameter>buffer</parameter>, which will be exactly
+ <literal>PAGE_SIZE</literal> bytes long.
</para>
<para>
- If the <parameter>off</parameter> and
- <parameter>count</parameter> parameters are properly used,
- <parameter>eof</parameter> should be used to signal that the
+ The parameter
+ <parameter>peof</parameter> should be used to signal that the
end of the file has been reached by writing
<literal>1</literal> to the memory location
- <parameter>eof</parameter> points to.
+ <parameter>peof</parameter> points to.
</para>
<para>
- The parameter <parameter>start</parameter> doesn't seem to be
- used anywhere in the kernel. The <parameter>data</parameter>
+ The <parameter>data</parameter>
parameter can be used to create a single call back function for
several files, see <xref linkend="usingdata"/>.
</para>
<para>
- The <function>read_func</function> function must return the
- number of bytes written into the <parameter>page</parameter>.
+ The rest of the parameters and the return value are described
+ by a comment in <filename>fs/proc/generic.c</filename> as follows:
</para>
+ <blockquote>
+ <para>
+ You have three ways to return data:
+ </para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Leave <literal>*start = NULL</literal>. (This is the default.)
+ Put the data of the requested offset at that
+ offset within the buffer. Return the number (<literal>n</literal>)
+ of bytes there are from the beginning of the
+ buffer up to the last byte of data. If the
+ number of supplied bytes (<literal>= n - offset</literal>) is
+ greater than zero and you didn't signal eof
+ and the reader is prepared to take more data
+ you will be called again with the requested
+ offset advanced by the number of bytes
+ absorbed. This interface is useful for files
+ no larger than the buffer.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Set <literal>*start</literal> to an unsigned long value less than
+ the buffer address but greater than zero.
+ Put the data of the requested offset at the
+ beginning of the buffer. Return the number of
+ bytes of data placed there. If this number is
+ greater than zero and you didn't signal eof
+ and the reader is prepared to take more data
+ you will be called again with the requested
+ offset advanced by <literal>*start</literal>. This interface is
+ useful when you have a large file consisting
+ of a series of blocks which you want to count
+ and return as wholes.
+ (Hack by Paul.Russell@rustcorp.com.au)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Set <literal>*start</literal> to an address within the buffer.
+ Put the data of the requested offset at <literal>*start</literal>.
+ Return the number of bytes of data placed there.
+ If this number is greater than zero and you
+ didn't signal eof and the reader is prepared to
+ take more data you will be called again with the
+ requested offset advanced by the number of bytes
+ absorbed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </blockquote>
+
<para>
<xref linkend="example"/> shows how to use a read call back
function.