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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport-light | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 5 |
5 files changed, 35 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 index 81c0c59a60e..e1bb5b26169 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ Supported adapters: * Intel 82801I (ICH9) * Intel EP80579 (Tolapai) * Intel 82801JI (ICH10) - * Intel PCH + * Intel 3400/5 Series (PCH) + * Intel Cougar Point (PCH) Datasheets: Publicly available at the Intel website Authors: diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport index dceaba1ad93..2461c7b53b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport @@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ can be easily added when needed. Earlier kernels defaulted to type=0 (Philips). But now, if the type parameter is missing, the driver will simply fail to initialize. +SMBus alert support is available on adapters which have this line properly +connected to the parallel port's interrupt pin. + Building your own adapter ------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport-light b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport-light index 28743647852..bdc9cbb2e0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport-light +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-parport-light @@ -9,3 +9,14 @@ parport handling is not an option. The drawback is a reduced portability and the impossibility to daisy-chain other parallel port devices. Please see i2c-parport for documentation. + +Module parameters: + +* type: type of adapter (see i2c-parport or modinfo) + +* base: base I/O address + Default is 0x378 which is fairly common for parallel ports, at least on PC. + +* irq: optional IRQ + This must be passed if you want SMBus alert support, assuming your adapter + actually supports this. 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 ====================== diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index 0a74603eb67..3219ee0dbfe 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -318,8 +318,9 @@ Plain I2C communication These routines read and write some bytes from/to a client. The client contains the i2c address, so you do not have to include it. The second parameter contains the bytes to read/write, the third the number of bytes -to read/write (must be less than the length of the buffer.) Returned is -the actual number of bytes read/written. +to read/write (must be less than the length of the buffer, also should be +less than 64k since msg.len is u16.) Returned is the actual number of bytes +read/written. int i2c_transfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg *msg, int num); |