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authorBenjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>2016-06-09 17:53:48 +0300
committerWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>2016-06-17 14:24:05 +0300
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parentb4f210541fc319bd643ad9a4fdbfe2ce31be6cfc (diff)
downloadlinux-e456cd37bc28abe47dc65189df916ac0510ac1d4.tar.xz
i2c: smbus: add SMBus Host Notify support
SMBus Host Notify allows a slave device to act as a master on a bus to notify the host of an interrupt. On Intel chipsets, the functionality is directly implemented in the firmware. We just need to export a function to call .alert() on the proper device driver. i2c_handle_smbus_host_notify() behaves like i2c_handle_smbus_alert(). When called, it schedules a task that will be able to sleep to go through the list of devices attached to the adapter. The current implementation allows one Host Notification to be scheduled while an other is running. Tested-by: Andrew Duggan <aduggan@synaptics.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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@@ -199,6 +199,12 @@ alerting device's address.
[S] [HostAddr] [Wr] A [DevAddr] A [DataLow] A [DataHigh] A [P]
+This is implemented in the following way in the Linux kernel:
+* I2C bus drivers which support SMBus Host Notify should call
+ i2c_setup_smbus_host_notify() to setup SMBus Host Notify support.
+* I2C drivers for devices which can trigger SMBus Host Notify should implement
+ the optional alert() callback.
+
Packet Error Checking (PEC)
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