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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c/writing-clients')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 69 |
1 files changed, 54 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index ee75cbace28..6b61b3a2e90 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -25,14 +25,29 @@ routines, and should be zero-initialized except for fields with data you provide. A client structure holds device-specific information like the driver model device node, and its I2C address. +/* iff driver uses driver model ("new style") binding model: */ + +static struct i2c_device_id foo_idtable[] = { + { "foo", my_id_for_foo }, + { "bar", my_id_for_bar }, + { } +}; + +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, foo_idtable); + static struct i2c_driver foo_driver = { .driver = { .name = "foo", }, /* iff driver uses driver model ("new style") binding model: */ + .id_table = foo_ids, .probe = foo_probe, .remove = foo_remove, + /* if device autodetection is needed: */ + .class = I2C_CLASS_SOMETHING, + .detect = foo_detect, + .address_data = &addr_data, /* else, driver uses "legacy" binding model: */ .attach_adapter = foo_attach_adapter, @@ -173,10 +188,9 @@ handle may be used during foo_probe(). If foo_probe() reports success (zero not a negative status code) it may save the handle and use it until foo_remove() returns. That binding model is used by most Linux drivers. -Drivers match devices when i2c_client.driver_name and the driver name are -the same; this approach is used in several other busses that don't have -device typing support in the hardware. The driver and module name should -match, so hotplug/coldplug mechanisms will modprobe the driver. +The probe function is called when an entry in the id_table name field +matches the device's name. It is passed the entry that was matched so +the driver knows which one in the table matched. Device Creation (Standard driver model) @@ -207,6 +221,31 @@ in the I2C bus driver. You may want to save the returned i2c_client reference for later use. +Device Detection (Standard driver model) +---------------------------------------- + +Sometimes you do not know in advance which I2C devices are connected to +a given I2C bus. This is for example the case of hardware monitoring +devices on a PC's SMBus. In that case, you may want to let your driver +detect supported devices automatically. This is how the legacy model +was working, and is now available as an extension to the standard +driver model (so that we can finally get rid of the legacy model.) + +You simply have to define a detect callback which will attempt to +identify supported devices (returning 0 for supported ones and -ENODEV +for unsupported ones), a list of addresses to probe, and a device type +(or class) so that only I2C buses which may have that type of device +connected (and not otherwise enumerated) will be probed. The i2c +core will then call you back as needed and will instantiate a device +for you for every successful detection. + +Note that this mechanism is purely optional and not suitable for all +devices. You need some reliable way to identify the supported devices +(typically using device-specific, dedicated identification registers), +otherwise misdetections are likely to occur and things can get wrong +quickly. + + Device Deletion (Standard driver model) --------------------------------------- @@ -559,7 +598,6 @@ SMBus communication in terms of it. Never use this function directly! - extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_quick(struct i2c_client * client, u8 value); extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_byte(struct i2c_client * client); extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_byte(struct i2c_client * client, u8 value); extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command); @@ -568,30 +606,31 @@ SMBus communication extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_word_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command); extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_word_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u16 value); + extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, + u8 command, u8 *values); extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values); extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values); - -These ones were removed in Linux 2.6.10 because they had no users, but could -be added back later if needed: - - extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, - u8 command, u8 *values); extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values); + +These ones were removed from i2c-core because they had no users, but could +be added back later if needed: + + extern s32 i2c_smbus_write_quick(struct i2c_client * client, u8 value); extern s32 i2c_smbus_process_call(struct i2c_client * client, u8 command, u16 value); extern s32 i2c_smbus_block_process_call(struct i2c_client *client, u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values) -All these transactions return -1 on failure. The 'write' transactions -return 0 on success; the 'read' transactions return the read value, except -for read_block, which returns the number of values read. The block buffers -need not be longer than 32 bytes. +All these transactions return a negative errno value on failure. The 'write' +transactions return 0 on success; the 'read' transactions return the read +value, except for block transactions, which return the number of values +read. The block buffers need not be longer than 32 bytes. You can read the file `smbus-protocol' for more information about the actual SMBus protocol. |