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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-voodoo3 | 62 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters | 44 |
4 files changed, 55 insertions, 76 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index a004b04ffd3a..591e94448e63 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -407,15 +407,6 @@ Who: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> --------------------------- -What: i2c-voodoo3 driver -When: October 2009 -Why: Superseded by tdfxfb. I2C/DDC support used to live in a separate - driver but this caused driver conflicts. -Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> - Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> - ---------------------------- - What: CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT When: 2.6.33 Why: Should be implemented in userspace, policy daemon. diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-voodoo3 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-voodoo3 deleted file mode 100644 index 62d90a454d39..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-voodoo3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -Kernel driver i2c-voodoo3 - -Supported adapters: - * 3dfx Voodoo3 based cards - * Voodoo Banshee based cards - -Authors: - Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>, - Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>, - Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>, - Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> - -Main contact: Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com> - -The code is based upon Ralph's test code (he did the hard stuff ;') - -Description ------------ - -The 3dfx Voodoo3 chip contains 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. The intent by 3dfx was -to allow manufacturers to add extra chips to the video card such as a -TV-out chip such as the BT869 or possibly even I2C based temperature -sensors like the ADM1021 or LM75. - -Stability ---------- - -Seems to be stable on the test machine, but needs more testing on other -machines. Simultaneous accesses of the DDC and I2C busses may cause errors. - -Supported Devices ------------------ - -Specifically, this driver was written and tested on the '3dfx Voodoo3 AGP -3000' which has a tv-out feature (s-video or composite). According to the -docs and discussions, this code should work for any Voodoo3 based cards as -well as Voodoo Banshee based cards. The DDC interface has been tested on a -Voodoo Banshee card. - -Issues ------- - -Probably many, but it seems to work OK on my system. :') - - -External Device Connection --------------------------- - -The digital video input jumpers give availability to the I2C bus. -Specifically, pins 13 and 25 (bottom row middle, and bottom right-end) are -the I2C clock and I2C data lines, respectively. +5V and GND are probably -also easily available making the addition of extra I2C/SMBus devices easy -to implement. diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub index 0d8be1c20c16..fa4b669c166b 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub +++ 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 diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters b/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8e2b629d533c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +I2C device driver binding control from user-space +================================================= + +Up to kernel 2.6.32, many i2c drivers used helper macros provided by +<linux/i2c.h> which created standard module parameters to let the user +control how the driver would probe i2c buses and attach to devices. These +parameters were known as "probe" (to let the driver probe for an extra +address), "force" (to forcibly attach the driver to a given device) and +"ignore" (to prevent a driver from probing a given address). + +With the conversion of the i2c subsystem to the standard device driver +binding model, it became clear that these per-module parameters were no +longer needed, and that a centralized implementation was possible. The new, +sysfs-based interface is described in the documentation file +"instantiating-devices", section "Method 4: Instantiate from user-space". + +Below is a mapping from the old module parameters to the new interface. + +Attaching a driver to an I2C device +----------------------------------- + +Old method (module parameters): +# modprobe <driver> probe=1,0x2d +# modprobe <driver> force=1,0x2d +# modprobe <driver> force_<device>=1,0x2d + +New method (sysfs interface): +# echo <device> 0x2d > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device + +Preventing a driver from attaching to an I2C device +--------------------------------------------------- + +Old method (module parameters): +# modprobe <driver> ignore=1,0x2f + +New method (sysfs interface): +# echo dummy 0x2f > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device +# modprobe <driver> + +Of course, it is important to instantiate the "dummy" device before loading +the driver. The dummy device will be handled by i2c-core itself, preventing +other drivers from binding to it later on. If there is a real device at the +problematic address, and you want another driver to bind to it, then simply +pass the name of the device in question instead of "dummy". |