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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i810 | 47 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-prosavage | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-savage4 | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/fault-codes | 127 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 51 |
6 files changed, 169 insertions, 109 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i810 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i810 deleted file mode 100644 index 778210ee1583..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i810 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -Kernel driver i2c-i810 - -Supported adapters: - * Intel 82810, 82810-DC100, 82810E, and 82815 (GMCH) - * Intel 82845G (GMCH) - -Authors: - Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>, - Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>, - Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>, - Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>, - Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> - -Main contact: Mark Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> - -Description ------------ - -WARNING: If you have an '810' or '815' motherboard, your standard I2C -temperature sensors are most likely on the 801's I2C bus. You want the -i2c-i801 driver for those, not this driver. - -Now for the i2c-i810... - -The GMCH chip contains two I2C interfaces. - -The first interface is used for DDC (Data Display Channel) which is a -serial channel through the VGA monitor connector to a DDC-compliant -monitor. This interface is defined by the Video Electronics Standards -Association (VESA). The standards are available for purchase at -http://www.vesa.org . - -The second interface is a general-purpose I2C bus. It may be connected to a -TV-out chip such as the BT869 or possibly to a digital flat-panel display. - -Features --------- - -Both busses use the i2c-algo-bit driver for 'bit banging' -and support for specific transactions is provided by i2c-algo-bit. - -Issues ------- - -If you enable bus testing in i2c-algo-bit (insmod i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1), -the test may fail; if so, the i2c-i810 driver won't be inserted. However, -we think this has been fixed. diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-prosavage b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-prosavage deleted file mode 100644 index 703687902511..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-prosavage +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -Kernel driver i2c-prosavage - -Supported adapters: - - S3/VIA KM266/VT8375 aka ProSavage8 - S3/VIA KM133/VT8365 aka Savage4 - -Author: Henk Vergonet <henk@god.dyndns.org> - -Description ------------ - -The Savage4 chips contain two I2C interfaces (aka a I2C 'master' or -'host'). - -The first interface is used for DDC (Data Display Channel) which is a -serial channel through the VGA monitor connector to a DDC-compliant -monitor. This interface is defined by the Video Electronics Standards -Association (VESA). The standards are available for purchase at -http://www.vesa.org . The second interface is a general-purpose I2C bus. - -Usefull for gaining access to the TV Encoder chips. - diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-savage4 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-savage4 deleted file mode 100644 index 6ecceab618d3..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-savage4 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -Kernel driver i2c-savage4 - -Supported adapters: - * Savage4 - * Savage2000 - -Authors: - Alexander Wold <awold@bigfoot.com>, - Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> - -Description ------------ - -The Savage4 chips contain two I2C interfaces (aka a I2C 'master' -or 'host'). - -The first interface is used for DDC (Data Display Channel) which is a -serial channel through the VGA monitor connector to a DDC-compliant -monitor. This interface is defined by the Video Electronics Standards -Association (VESA). The standards are available for purchase at -http://www.vesa.org . The DDC bus is not yet supported because its register -is not directly memory-mapped. - -The second interface is a general-purpose I2C bus. This is the only -interface supported by the driver at the moment. - diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/fault-codes b/Documentation/i2c/fault-codes new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..045765c0b9b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/fault-codes @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +This is a summary of the most important conventions for use of fault +codes in the I2C/SMBus stack. + + +A "Fault" is not always an "Error" +---------------------------------- +Not all fault reports imply errors; "page faults" should be a familiar +example. Software often retries idempotent operations after transient +faults. There may be fancier recovery schemes that are appropriate in +some cases, such as re-initializing (and maybe resetting). After such +recovery, triggered by a fault report, there is no error. + +In a similar way, sometimes a "fault" code just reports one defined +result for an operation ... it doesn't indicate that anything is wrong +at all, just that the outcome wasn't on the "golden path". + +In short, your I2C driver code may need to know these codes in order +to respond correctly. Other code may need to rely on YOUR code reporting +the right fault code, so that it can (in turn) behave correctly. + + +I2C and SMBus fault codes +------------------------- +These are returned as negative numbers from most calls, with zero or +some positive number indicating a non-fault return. The specific +numbers associated with these symbols differ between architectures, +though most Linux systems use <asm-generic/errno*.h> numbering. + +Note that the descriptions here are not exhaustive. There are other +codes that may be returned, and other cases where these codes should +be returned. However, drivers should not return other codes for these +cases (unless the hardware doesn't provide unique fault reports). + +Also, codes returned by adapter probe methods follow rules which are +specific to their host bus (such as PCI, or the platform bus). + + +EAGAIN + Returned by I2C adapters when they lose arbitration in master + transmit mode: some other master was transmitting different + data at the same time. + + Also returned when trying to invoke an I2C operation in an + atomic context, when some task is already using that I2C bus + to execute some other operation. + +EBADMSG + Returned by SMBus logic when an invalid Packet Error Code byte + is received. This code is a CRC covering all bytes in the + transaction, and is sent before the terminating STOP. This + fault is only reported on read transactions; the SMBus slave + may have a way to report PEC mismatches on writes from the + host. Note that even if PECs are in use, you should not rely + on these as the only way to detect incorrect data transfers. + +EBUSY + Returned by SMBus adapters when the bus was busy for longer + than allowed. This usually indicates some device (maybe the + SMBus adapter) needs some fault recovery (such as resetting), + or that the reset was attempted but failed. + +EINVAL + This rather vague error means an invalid parameter has been + detected before any I/O operation was started. Use a more + specific fault code when you can. + + One example would be a driver trying an SMBus Block Write + with block size outside the range of 1-32 bytes. + +EIO + This rather vague error means something went wrong when + performing an I/O operation. Use a more specific fault + code when you can. + +ENODEV + Returned by driver probe() methods. This is a bit more + specific than ENXIO, implying the problem isn't with the + address, but with the device found there. Driver probes + may verify the device returns *correct* responses, and + return this as appropriate. (The driver core will warn + about probe faults other than ENXIO and ENODEV.) + +ENOMEM + Returned by any component that can't allocate memory when + it needs to do so. + +ENXIO + Returned by I2C adapters to indicate that the address phase + of a transfer didn't get an ACK. While it might just mean + an I2C device was temporarily not responding, usually it + means there's nothing listening at that address. + + Returned by driver probe() methods to indicate that they + found no device to bind to. (ENODEV may also be used.) + +EOPNOTSUPP + Returned by an adapter when asked to perform an operation + that it doesn't, or can't, support. + + For example, this would be returned when an adapter that + doesn't support SMBus block transfers is asked to execute + one. In that case, the driver making that request should + have verified that functionality was supported before it + made that block transfer request. + + Similarly, if an I2C adapter can't execute all legal I2C + messages, it should return this when asked to perform a + transaction it can't. (These limitations can't be seen in + the adapter's functionality mask, since the assumption is + that if an adapter supports I2C it supports all of I2C.) + +EPROTO + Returned when slave does not conform to the relevant I2C + or SMBus (or chip-specific) protocol specifications. One + case is when the length of an SMBus block data response + (from the SMBus slave) is outside the range 1-32 bytes. + +ETIMEDOUT + This is returned by drivers when an operation took too much + time, and was aborted before it completed. + + SMBus adapters may return it when an operation took more + time than allowed by the SMBus specification; for example, + when a slave stretches clocks too far. I2C has no such + timeouts, but it's normal for I2C adapters to impose some + arbitrary limits (much longer than SMBus!) too. + diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol index 03f08fb491cc..24bfb65da17d 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol +++ b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ Count (8 bits): A data byte containing the length of a block operation. [..]: Data sent by I2C device, as opposed to data sent by the host adapter. -SMBus Quick Command: i2c_smbus_write_quick() -============================================= +SMBus Quick Command +=================== This sends a single bit to the device, at the place of the Rd/Wr bit. diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index d4cd4126d1ad..6b61b3a2e90b 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ static struct i2c_driver foo_driver = { .id_table = foo_ids, .probe = foo_probe, .remove = foo_remove, + /* if device autodetection is needed: */ + .class = I2C_CLASS_SOMETHING, + .detect = foo_detect, + .address_data = &addr_data, /* else, driver uses "legacy" binding model: */ .attach_adapter = foo_attach_adapter, @@ -217,6 +221,31 @@ in the I2C bus driver. You may want to save the returned i2c_client reference for later use. +Device Detection (Standard driver model) +---------------------------------------- + +Sometimes you do not know in advance which I2C devices are connected to +a given I2C bus. This is for example the case of hardware monitoring +devices on a PC's SMBus. In that case, you may want to let your driver +detect supported devices automatically. This is how the legacy model +was working, and is now available as an extension to the standard +driver model (so that we can finally get rid of the legacy model.) + +You simply have to define a detect callback which will attempt to +identify supported devices (returning 0 for supported ones and -ENODEV +for unsupported ones), a list of addresses to probe, and a device type +(or class) so that only I2C buses which may have that type of device +connected (and not otherwise enumerated) will be probed. The i2c +core will then call you back as needed and will instantiate a device +for you for every successful detection. + +Note that this mechanism is purely optional and not suitable for all +devices. You need some reliable way to identify the supported devices +(typically using device-specific, dedicated identification registers), +otherwise misdetections are likely to occur and things can get wrong +quickly. + + Device Deletion (Standard driver model) --------------------------------------- @@ -569,7 +598,6 @@ SMBus communication in terms of it. Never use this function directly! - extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_quick(struct i2c_client * client, u8 value); extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_byte(struct i2c_client * client); extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_byte(struct i2c_client * client, u8 value); extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command); @@ -578,30 +606,31 @@ SMBus communication extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_word_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command); extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_word_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u16 value); + extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, + u8 command, u8 *values); extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values); extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values); - -These ones were removed in Linux 2.6.10 because they had no users, but could -be added back later if needed: - - extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, - u8 command, u8 *values); extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values); + +These ones were removed from i2c-core because they had no users, but could +be added back later if needed: + + extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_quick(struct i2c_client * client, u8 value); extern s32 i2c_smbus_process_call(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u16 value); extern s32 i2c_smbus_block_process_call(struct i2c_client *client, u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values) -All these transactions return -1 on failure. The 'write' transactions -return 0 on success; the 'read' transactions return the read value, except -for read_block, which returns the number of values read. The block buffers -need not be longer than 32 bytes. +All these transactions return a negative errno value on failure. The 'write' +transactions return 0 on success; the 'read' transactions return the read +value, except for block transactions, which return the number of values +read. The block buffers need not be longer than 32 bytes. You can read the file `smbus-protocol' for more information about the actual SMBus protocol. |