tmp_suning_uos_patched/drivers/i2c
David Brownell 907135aaa0 i2c-dev: "how does it work" comments
This adds some "how does this work" comments to the i2c-dev driver,
plus separators between the three main components:

  - The parallel list of i2c_adapters ("i2c_dev_list"), each of which
    gets a "struct i2c_dev" and a /dev/i2c-X character special file.

  - An i2cdev_driver gets adapter add/remove notifications, which are
    used to maintain that list of adapters.

  - Special file operations, which let userspace talk either directly to
    the adapter (for i2c_msg operations) or through cached addressing info
    using an anonymous i2c_client (never registered anywhere).

Plus there's the usual module load/unload record keeping.

After making sense of this code, I think that the anonymous i2c_client
is pretty shady.  But since it's never registered, using this code with
a system set up for "new style" I2C drivers is no more complicated than
always using the I2C_SLAVE_FORCE ioctl (instead of I2C_SLAVE).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-11-15 19:24:01 +01:00
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algos Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups 2007-10-19 23:21:04 +02:00
busses typo fixes 2007-10-20 01:34:40 +02:00
chips Add missing newlines to some uses of dev_<level> messages 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
i2c-boardinfo.c i2c: Add i2c_board_info and i2c_new_device() 2007-05-01 23:26:31 +02:00
i2c-core.c Convert files to UTF-8 and some cleanups 2007-10-19 23:21:04 +02:00
i2c-core.h i2c: Add i2c_board_info and i2c_new_device() 2007-05-01 23:26:31 +02:00
i2c-dev.c i2c-dev: "how does it work" comments 2007-11-15 19:24:01 +01:00
Kconfig [S390] Kconfig: menus with depends on HAS_IOMEM. 2007-05-10 15:46:07 +02:00
Makefile i2c: Add i2c_board_info and i2c_new_device() 2007-05-01 23:26:31 +02:00