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| author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-09-28 08:29:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-09-28 08:29:59 -0400 |
| commit | 185a257f2f73bcd89050ad02da5bedbc28fc43fa (patch) | |
| tree | 5e32586114534ed3f2165614cba3d578f5d87307 /Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub | |
| parent | 3f1a9aaeffd8d1cbc5ab9776c45cbd66af1c9699 (diff) | |
| parent | a77c64c1a641950626181b4857abb701d8f38ccc (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into gfs2
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub index d6dcb138abf..9cc081e6976 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub +++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub @@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ 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. +You need to provide a chip address as a module parameter when loading +this driver, which will then only react to SMBus commands to this address. + No hardware is needed nor associated with this module. It will accept write -quick commands to all addresses; it will respond to the other commands (also -to all addresses) by reading from or writing to an array in memory. It will +quick commands to one address; it will respond to the other commands (also +to one address) by reading from or writing to an array in memory. It will also spam the kernel logs for every command it handles. A pointer register with auto-increment is implemented for all byte @@ -21,6 +24,11 @@ The typical use-case is like this: 3. load the target sensors chip driver module 4. observe its behavior in the kernel log +PARAMETERS: + +int chip_addr: + The SMBus address to emulate a chip at. + CAVEATS: There are independent arrays for byte/data and word/data commands. Depending @@ -33,6 +41,9 @@ If the hardware for your driver has banked registers (e.g. Winbond sensors chips) this module will not work well - although it could be extended to support that pretty easily. +Only one chip address is supported - although this module could be +extended to support more. + If you spam it hard enough, printk can be lossy. This module really wants something like relayfs. |