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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index 077275722a7..1882811c7f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ static struct i2c_driver foo_driver = { .command = &foo_command /* may be NULL */ } -The name can be chosen freely, and may be upto 40 characters long. Please -use something descriptive here. +The name field must match the driver name, including the case. It must not +contain spaces, and may be up to 31 characters long. Don't worry about the flags field; just put I2C_DF_NOTIFY into it. This means that your driver will be notified when new adapters are found. @@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ This is almost always what you want. All other fields are for call-back functions which will be explained below. -There use to be two additional fields in this structure, inc_use et dec_use, -for module usage count, but these fields were obsoleted and removed. - Extra client data ================= @@ -576,12 +573,12 @@ SMBus communication 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 *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_i2c_block_data(struct i2c_client * client, - u8 command, u8 *values); 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, |