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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> | 2012-05-30 10:55:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <khali@endymion.delvare> | 2012-05-30 10:55:34 +0200 |
| commit | 14674e70119ea01549ce593d8901a797f8a90f74 (patch) | |
| tree | 15474236bfa505aa396bf2892cbbee65e842b94b /Documentation | |
| parent | 838bfa6049fb84dc66c9c9bbeb3a968ec987fd3d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-14674e70119ea01549ce593d8901a797f8a90f74.tar.gz lwn-14674e70119ea01549ce593d8901a797f8a90f74.zip | |
i2c: Split I2C_M_NOSTART support out of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING
Since there are uses for I2C_M_NOSTART which are much more sensible and
standard than most of the protocol mangling functionality (the main one
being gather writes to devices where something like a register address
needs to be inserted before a block of data) create a new I2C_FUNC_NOSTART
for this feature and update all the users to use it.
Also strengthen the disrecommendation of the protocol mangling while we're
at it.
In the case of regmap-i2c we remove the requirement for mangling as
I2C_M_NOSTART is the only mangling feature which is being used.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/functionality | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol | 9 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/functionality b/Documentation/i2c/functionality index 42c17c1fb3cd..b0ff2ab596ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/functionality +++ b/Documentation/i2c/functionality @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ For the most up-to-date list of functionality constants, please check adapters typically can not do these) I2C_FUNC_10BIT_ADDR Handles the 10-bit address extensions I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING Knows about the I2C_M_IGNORE_NAK, - I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR, I2C_M_NOSTART and - I2C_M_NO_RD_ACK flags (which modify the - I2C protocol!) + I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR and I2C_M_NO_RD_ACK + flags (which modify the I2C protocol!) + I2C_FUNC_NOSTART Can skip repeated start sequence I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_QUICK Handles the SMBus write_quick command I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE Handles the SMBus read_byte command I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE Handles the SMBus write_byte command @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ A few combinations of the above flags are also defined for your convenience: emulated by a real I2C adapter (using the transparent emulation layer) +In kernel versions prior to 3.5 I2C_FUNC_NOSTART was implemented as +part of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING. + ADAPTER IMPLEMENTATION ---------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol index 10518dd58814..0b3e62d1f77a 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol +++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ a byte read, followed by a byte write: Modified transactions ===================== -We have found some I2C devices that needs the following modifications: +The following modifications to the I2C protocol can also be generated, +with the exception of I2C_M_NOSTART these are usually only needed to +work around device issues: Flag I2C_M_NOSTART: In a combined transaction, no 'S Addr Wr/Rd [A]' is generated at some @@ -60,6 +62,11 @@ We have found some I2C devices that needs the following modifications: we do not generate Addr, but we do generate the startbit S. This will probably confuse all other clients on your bus, so don't try this. + This is often used to gather transmits from multiple data buffers in + system memory into something that appears as a single transfer to the + I2C device but may also be used between direction changes by some + rare devices. + Flags I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR This toggles the Rd/Wr flag. That is, if you want to do a write, but need to emit an Rd instead of a Wr, or vice versa, you set this |