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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2010-01-12 12:59:05 +0000
committerMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2010-01-12 12:59:05 +0000
commit163849ea9b4c5d50fbd324692461983d18faadad (patch)
tree7176a18fea53560eb4092aa103d94a266ab4e60d /Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub
parent2138301e1687bd4f22aa2b4df4829b6ffdae19bc (diff)
parent5ee518ecbcb5934e284ea51a19a939c891f5f7ea (diff)
Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' into for-2.6.34
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+++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ MODULE: i2c-stub
DESCRIPTION:
-This module is a very simple fake I2C/SMBus driver. It implements four
-types of SMBus commands: write quick, (r/w) byte, (r/w) byte data, and
-(r/w) word data.
+This module is a very simple fake I2C/SMBus driver. It implements five
+types of SMBus commands: write quick, (r/w) byte, (r/w) byte data, (r/w)
+word data, and (r/w) I2C block data.
You need to provide chip addresses as a module parameter when loading this
driver, which will then only react to SMBus commands to these addresses.
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ EEPROMs, among others.
The typical use-case is like this:
1. load this module
- 2. use i2cset (from lm_sensors project) to pre-load some data
- 3. load the target sensors chip driver module
+ 2. use i2cset (from the i2c-tools project) to pre-load some data
+ 3. load the target chip driver module
4. observe its behavior in the kernel log
There's a script named i2c-stub-from-dump in the i2c-tools package which
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ PARAMETERS:
int chip_addr[10]:
The SMBus addresses to emulate chips at.
+unsigned long functionality:
+ Functionality override, to disable some commands. See I2C_FUNC_*
+ constants in <linux/i2c.h> for the suitable values. For example,
+ value 0x1f0000 would only enable the quick, byte and byte data
+ commands.
+
CAVEATS:
If your target driver polls some byte or word waiting for it to change, the