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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/lm70 | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 index 2bdd3feebf5..b8d1a521e68 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ complement digital temperature (sent via the SIO line), is available in the driver for interpretation. This driver makes use of the kernel's in-core SPI support. +As a real (in-tree) example of this "SPI protocol driver" interfacing +with a "SPI master controller driver", see drivers/spi/spi_lm70llp.c +and its associated documentation. + Thanks to --------- Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> for mentoring the hwmon-side driver diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp b/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp index 154bd02220b..34a9cfd746b 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp @@ -13,10 +13,20 @@ Description This driver provides glue code connecting a National Semiconductor LM70 LLP temperature sensor evaluation board to the kernel's SPI core subsystem. +This is a SPI master controller driver. It can be used in conjunction with +(layered under) the LM70 logical driver (a "SPI protocol driver"). In effect, this driver turns the parallel port interface on the eval board into a SPI bus with a single device, which will be driven by the generic LM70 driver (drivers/hwmon/lm70.c). + +Hardware Interfacing +-------------------- +The schematic for this particular board (the LM70EVAL-LLP) is +available (on page 4) here: + + http://www.national.com/appinfo/tempsensors/files/LM70LLPEVALmanual.pdf + The hardware interfacing on the LM70 LLP eval board is as follows: Parallel LM70 LLP |