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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/porting-clients | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 19 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients index 68bcd66e36b..f9099211bd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/porting-clients @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ Technical changes: if (!(adapter->class & I2C_CLASS_HWMON)) return 0; ISA-only drivers of course don't need this. + Call i2c_probe() instead of i2c_detect(). * [Detect] As mentioned earlier, the flags parameter is gone. The type_name and client_name strings are replaced by a single diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index 7e2a8f11c22..43d7928056a 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ are defined in i2c.h to help you support them, as well as a generic detection algorithm. You do not have to use this parameter interface; but don't try to use -function i2c_probe() (or i2c_detect()) if you don't. +function i2c_probe() if you don't. NOTE: If you want to write a `sensors' driver, the interface is slightly different! See below. @@ -259,17 +259,10 @@ detected at a specific address, another callback is called. return i2c_probe(adapter,&addr_data,&foo_detect_client); } -For `sensors' drivers, use the i2c_detect function instead: - - int foo_attach_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adapter) - { - return i2c_detect(adapter,&addr_data,&foo_detect_client); - } - Remember, structure `addr_data' is defined by the macros explained above, so you do not have to define it yourself. -The i2c_probe or i2c_detect function will call the foo_detect_client +The i2c_probe function will call the foo_detect_client function only for those i2c addresses that actually have a device on them (unless a `force' parameter was used). In addition, addresses that are already in use (by some other registered client) are skipped. @@ -278,11 +271,9 @@ are already in use (by some other registered client) are skipped. The detect client function -------------------------- -The detect client function is called by i2c_probe or i2c_detect. -The `kind' parameter contains 0 if this call is due to a `force' -parameter, and -1 otherwise (for i2c_detect, it contains 0 if -this call is due to the generic `force' parameter, and the chip type -number if it is due to a specific `force' parameter). +The detect client function is called by i2c_probe. The `kind' parameter +contains -1 for a probed detection, 0 for a forced detection, or a positive +number for a forced detection with a chip type forced. Below, some things are only needed if this is a `sensors' driver. Those parts are between /* SENSORS ONLY START */ and /* SENSORS ONLY END */ |