From 0c43ea544c1086fbbed5a6c99ea58eb64674ea8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhangfei Gao Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:23:49 +0100 Subject: i2c: Document the message size limit i2c_master_send & i2c_master_recv do not support more than 64 kb transfer, since msg.len is u16. Signed-off-by: Zhangfei Gao Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare --- Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/i2c') diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index 0a74603eb671..3219ee0dbfef 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); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b