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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/device_connection.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/device_connection.rst deleted file mode 100644 index ba364224c349..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/device_connection.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -================== -Device connections -================== - -Introduction ------------- - -Devices often have connections to other devices that are outside of the direct -child/parent relationship. A serial or network communication controller, which -could be a PCI device, may need to be able to get a reference to its PHY -component, which could be attached for example to the I2C bus. Some device -drivers need to be able to control the clocks or the GPIOs for their devices, -and so on. - -Device connections are generic descriptions of any type of connection between -two separate devices. - -Device connections alone do not create a dependency between the two devices. -They are only descriptions which are not tied to either of the devices directly. -A dependency between the two devices exists only if one of the two endpoint -devices requests a reference to the other. The descriptions themselves can be -defined in firmware (not yet supported) or they can be built-in. - -Usage ------ - -Device connections should exist before device ``->probe`` callback is called for -either endpoint device in the description. If the connections are defined in -firmware, this is not a problem. It should be considered if the connection -descriptions are "built-in", and need to be added separately. - -The connection description consists of the names of the two devices with the -connection, i.e. the endpoints, and unique identifier for the connection which -is needed if there are multiple connections between the two devices. - -After a description exists, the devices in it can request reference to the other -endpoint device, or they can request the description itself. - -API ---- - -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/devcon.c - :functions: device_connection_find_match device_connection_find device_connection_add device_connection_remove |