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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-07-17 11:17:36 -0300 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-07-17 11:17:36 -0300 |
commit | a3db9d60a118571e696b684a6e8c692a2b064941 (patch) | |
tree | ff7bae0f79b7a2ee0bce03de4f883550200c52a9 /Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst | |
parent | media: staging: cxd2099: Activate cxd2099 buffer mode (diff) | |
parent | Linux v4.13-rc1 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v4.13-rc1' into patchwork
Linux v4.13-rc1
* tag 'v4.13-rc1': (11136 commits)
Linux v4.13-rc1
random: reorder READ_ONCE() in get_random_uXX
random: suppress spammy warnings about unseeded randomness
replace incorrect strscpy use in FORTIFY_SOURCE
kmod: throttle kmod thread limit
kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader
MAINTAINERS: give kmod some maintainer love
xtensa: use generic fb.h
fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth
fault-inject: simplify access check for fail-nth
fault-inject: make fail-nth read/write interface symmetric
fault-inject: parse as natural 1-based value for fail-nth write interface
fault-inject: automatically detect the number base for fail-nth write interface
kernel/watchdog.c: use better pr_fmt prefix
MAINTAINERS: move the befs tree to kernel.org
lib/atomic64_test.c: add a test that atomic64_inc_not_zero() returns an int
mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards()
ubifs: Set double hash cookie also for RENAME_EXCHANGE
ubifs: Massage assert in ubifs_xattr_set() wrt. init_xattrs
ubifs: Don't leak kernel memory to the MTD
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst index f3939f7852bd..7582c079d747 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ 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. -The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master side of bus -interactions, not the slave side. The programming interface is +The Linux I2C programming interfaces support the master side of bus +interactions and 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 @@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and exposes a I2C bus segment it manages. On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a :c:type:`struct i2c_client <i2c_client>`. Those devices will be bound to a :c:type:`struct i2c_driver -<i2c_driver>`, 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 +<i2c_driver>`, which should follow the standard Linux driver model. There +are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at this writing all such functions are usable only from task context. The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus @@ -42,5 +41,8 @@ i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations. .. kernel-doc:: drivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c :functions: i2c_register_board_info -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c :export: |