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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-07-31 17:08:50 -0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-07-31 14:13:13 -0600 |
| commit | 9cdd273e29f3b901712ec3c298b1d506861f48e3 (patch) | |
| tree | c2dc7b819892ee63e43430cd34a46026d081b069 /Documentation/spi/spi-sc18is602 | |
| parent | d2fd3732e4acd6ab72960e7f8e00845438803f3e (diff) | |
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spi: docs: convert to ReST and add it to the kABI bookset
While there's one file there with briefily describes the uAPI,
the documentation was written just like most subsystems: focused
on kernel developers. So, add it together with driver-api books.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> # for iio
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-sc18is602 b/Documentation/spi/spi-sc18is602 deleted file mode 100644 index 0feffd5af411..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-sc18is602 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ -Kernel driver spi-sc18is602 -=========================== - -Supported chips: - * NXP SI18IS602/602B/603 - Datasheet: http://www.nxp.com/documents/data_sheet/SC18IS602_602B_603.pdf - -Author: - Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - - -Description ------------ - -This driver provides connects a NXP SC18IS602/603 I2C-bus to SPI bridge to the -kernel's SPI core subsystem. - -The driver does not probe for supported chips, since the SI18IS602/603 does not -support Chip ID registers. You will have to instantiate the devices explicitly. -Please see Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst for details. - - -Usage Notes ------------ - -This driver requires the I2C adapter driver to support raw I2C messages. I2C -adapter drivers which can only handle the SMBus protocol are not supported. - -The maximum SPI message size supported by SC18IS602/603 is 200 bytes. Attempts -to initiate longer transfers will fail with -EINVAL. EEPROM read operations and -similar large accesses have to be split into multiple chunks of no more than -200 bytes per SPI message (128 bytes of data per message is recommended). This -means that programs such as "cp" or "od", which automatically use large block -sizes to access a device, can not be used directly to read data from EEPROM. -Programs such as dd, where the block size can be specified, should be used -instead. |