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author | David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> | 2007-11-15 19:24:01 +0100 |
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committer | Jean Delvare <khali@hyperion.delvare> | 2007-11-15 19:24:01 +0100 |
commit | 907135aaa0cc120a347222c8f274ecc5ca0db641 (patch) | |
tree | 0572c3fc649030ffee737907228a9bfb6094a63a /drivers/ide/Makefile | |
parent | 99fee6d7e5748d96884667a4628118f7fc130ea0 (diff) |
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>
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