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| author | Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net> | 2020-01-29 16:19:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> | 2020-01-29 22:01:54 +0100 |
| commit | 22714ef85478f7ff3a2dfd3e2bc854b72271ab8f (patch) | |
| tree | e7367971f36f8e6e656f74d441d69788b206cfb6 /Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst | |
| parent | da9a80bf1976148cfb26feebe34b626cd460f3d3 (diff) | |
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docs: i2c: instantiating-devices: use monospace for sysfs attributes
Use a monospace (literal) formatting for better readability of sysfs
attributes.
Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@lucaceresoli.net>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst index 665bf00792ba..e558e0a77e0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst +++ b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst @@ -225,15 +225,15 @@ In general, the kernel should know which I2C devices are connected and what addresses they live at. However, in certain cases, it does not, so a sysfs interface was added to let the user provide the information. This interface is made of 2 attribute files which are created in every I2C bus -directory: new_device and delete_device. Both files are write only and you -must write the right parameters to them in order to properly instantiate, -respectively delete, an I2C device. +directory: ``new_device`` and ``delete_device``. Both files are write +only and you must write the right parameters to them in order to properly +instantiate, respectively delete, an I2C device. -File new_device takes 2 parameters: the name of the I2C device (a string) -and the address of the I2C device (a number, typically expressed in -hexadecimal starting with 0x, but can also be expressed in decimal.) +File ``new_device`` takes 2 parameters: the name of the I2C device (a +string) and the address of the I2C device (a number, typically expressed +in hexadecimal starting with 0x, but can also be expressed in decimal.) -File delete_device takes a single parameter: the address of the I2C +File ``delete_device`` takes a single parameter: the address of the I2C device. As no two devices can live at the same address on a given I2C segment, the address is sufficient to uniquely identify the device to be deleted. |