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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mfd.txt | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mfd.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mfd.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..af9d6931a1a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/mfd.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Multi-Function Devices (MFD) + +These devices comprise a nexus for heterogeneous hardware blocks containing +more than one non-unique yet varying hardware functionality. + +A typical MFD can be: + +- A mixed signal ASIC on an external bus, sometimes a PMIC (Power Management + Integrated Circuit) that is manufactured in a lower technology node (rough + silicon) that handles analog drivers for things like audio amplifiers, LED + drivers, level shifters, PHY (physical interfaces to things like USB or + ethernet), regulators etc. + +- A range of memory registers containing "miscellaneous system registers" also + known as a system controller "syscon" or any other memory range containing a + mix of unrelated hardware devices. + +Optional properties: + +- compatible : "simple-mfd" - this signifies that the operating system should + consider all subnodes of the MFD device as separate devices akin to how + "simple-bus" inidicates when to see subnodes as children for a simple + memory-mapped bus. For more complex devices, when the nexus driver has to + probe registers to figure out what child devices exist etc, this should not + be used. In the latter case the child devices will be determined by the + operating system. + +Example: + +foo@1000 { + compatible = "syscon", "simple-mfd"; + reg = <0x01000 0x1000>; + + led@08.0 { + compatible = "register-bit-led"; + offset = <0x08>; + mask = <0x01>; + label = "myled"; + default-state = "on"; + }; +}; diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index c3b6b301d8b0..749b7bae0c00 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc stat Process status statm Process memory status information status Process status in human readable form - wchan If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan + wchan Present with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y: it shows the kernel function + symbol the task is blocked in - or "0" if not blocked. pagemap Page table stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of @@ -309,7 +310,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) blocked bitmap of blocked signals sigign bitmap of ignored signals sigcatch bitmap of caught signals - wchan address where process went to sleep + 0 (place holder, used to be the wchan address, use /proc/PID/wchan instead) 0 (place holder) 0 (place holder) exit_signal signal to send to parent thread on exit |