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2010-03-02i2c: Add SMBus alert supportJean Delvare
SMBus alert support. The SMBus alert protocol allows several SMBus slave devices to share a single interrupt pin on the SMBus master, while still allowing the master to know which slave triggered the interrupt. This is based on preliminary work by David Brownell. The key difference between David's implementation and mine is that his was part of i2c-core, while mine is split into a separate, standalone module named i2c-smbus. The i2c-smbus module is meant to include support for all SMBus extensions to the I2C protocol in the future. The benefit of this approach is a zero cost for I2C bus segments which do not need SMBus alert support. Where David's implementation increased the size of struct i2c_adapter by 7% (40 bytes on i386), mine doesn't touch it. Where David's implementation added over 150 lines of code to i2c-core (+10%), mine doesn't touch it. The only change that touches all the users of the i2c subsystem is a new callback in struct i2c_driver (common to both implementations.) I seem to remember Trent was worried about the footprint of David'd implementation, hopefully mine addresses the issue. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>
2008-10-14i2c: Restore i2c_smbus_process_call functionPrakash Mortha
Restore the i2c_smbus_process_call() as one driver (for the Micronas MAP5401) will need it soon. [JD: Update documentation accordingly.] Signed-off-by: Prakash Mortha <pmortha@escient.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-07-14i2c: Delete unused function i2c_smbus_write_quickJean Delvare
Function i2c_smbus_write_quick has no users left, so we can delete it. Also update the list of these helper functions which are gone but could be added back if needed. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-05-11i2c: Improve smbus-protocol documentationDavid Brownell
Improve the smbus-protocol documentation file somewhat: - Use the names of the SMBus protocol operations (from the 2.0 specification), not made-up-for-Linux names. - Add the name of the call used to execute each operation ... and point out that there are mismatches, where functions execute different protocol operations than their names specify. The most confusing examples are that "Read Byte" isn't executed by i2c_smbus_read_byte(), and that "Write Byte" isn't executed by i2c_smbus_write_byte(). When coding, that's not as bad as it may seem; but that case would seem to be worth fixing. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-13i2c: Fix typo in SMBus Write Word Data descriptionMike Frysinger
Write data, don't read it. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!