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-rw-r--r--Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst23
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst
index 3c95ae322fb1..33f05901ccf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst
+++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary.rst
@@ -178,10 +178,10 @@ shows up in sysfs in several locations::
/sys/bus/spi/drivers/D ... driver for one or more spi*.* devices
- /sys/class/spi_master/spiB ... symlink (or actual device node) to
- a logical node which could hold class related state for the SPI
- master controller managing bus "B". All spiB.* devices share one
- physical SPI bus segment, with SCLK, MOSI, and MISO.
+ /sys/class/spi_master/spiB ... symlink to a logical node which could hold
+ class related state for the SPI master controller managing bus "B".
+ All spiB.* devices share one physical SPI bus segment, with SCLK,
+ MOSI, and MISO.
/sys/devices/.../CTLR/slave ... virtual file for (un)registering the
slave device for an SPI slave controller.
@@ -191,16 +191,13 @@ shows up in sysfs in several locations::
Reading from this file shows the name of the slave device ("(null)"
if not registered).
- /sys/class/spi_slave/spiB ... symlink (or actual device node) to
- a logical node which could hold class related state for the SPI
- slave controller on bus "B". When registered, a single spiB.*
- device is present here, possible sharing the physical SPI bus
- segment with other SPI slave devices.
+ /sys/class/spi_slave/spiB ... symlink to a logical node which could hold
+ class related state for the SPI slave controller on bus "B". When
+ registered, a single spiB.* device is present here, possible sharing
+ the physical SPI bus segment with other SPI slave devices.
-Note that the actual location of the controller's class state depends
-on whether you enabled CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED or not. At this time,
-the only class-specific state is the bus number ("B" in "spiB"), so
-those /sys/class entries are only useful to quickly identify busses.
+At this time, the only class-specific state is the bus number ("B" in "spiB"),
+so those /sys/class entries are only useful to quickly identify busses.
How does board-specific init code declare SPI devices?