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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2020-07-24 01:28:09 +0300 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2020-07-24 01:48:05 +0300 |
| commit | 41206a073ceebc517245677a19f52ba6379b33a9 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fc35aac6abe32b99058ad55b0fc6e4d449d1056 /Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend.rst | |
| parent | 206739119508d5ab4b42ab480ff61a7e6cd72d7c (diff) | |
| parent | ba47d845d715a010f7b51f6f89bae32845e6acb7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-41206a073ceebc517245677a19f52ba6379b33a9.tar.xz | |
Merge v5.8-rc6 into drm-next
I've got a silent conflict + two trees based on fixes to merge.
Fixes a silent merge with amdgpu
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend.rst b/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend.rst index 0b8cd83698e0..38d951f10302 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend.rst +++ b/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend.rst @@ -1,14 +1,26 @@ ============================== -Linux I2C slave eeprom backend +Linux I2C slave EEPROM backend ============================== -by Wolfram Sang <wsa@sang-engineering.com> in 2014-15 +by Wolfram Sang <wsa@sang-engineering.com> in 2014-20 -This is a proof-of-concept backend which acts like an EEPROM on the connected -I2C bus. The memory contents can be modified from userspace via this file -located in sysfs:: +This backend simulates an EEPROM on the connected I2C bus. Its memory contents +can be accessed from userspace via this file located in sysfs:: /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<device-directory>/slave-eeprom +The following types are available: 24c02, 24c32, 24c64, and 24c512. Read-only +variants are also supported. The name needed for instantiating has the form +'slave-<type>[ro]'. Examples follow: + +24c02, read/write, address 0x64: + # echo slave-24c02 0x1064 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device + +24c512, read-only, address 0x42: + # echo slave-24c512ro 0x1042 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device + +You can also preload data during boot if a device-property named +'firmware-name' contains a valid filename (DT or ACPI only). + As of 2015, Linux doesn't support poll on binary sysfs files, so there is no notification when another master changed the content. |