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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-07-26 14:51:16 +0200 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-07-31 21:25:27 +0200 |
commit | ccf988b66d697efcd0ceccc2398e0d9b909cd17c (patch) | |
tree | 94022b812a20419675e4cac5af1540d75523d31d /Documentation/i2c/dev-interface | |
parent | docs: ubifs-authentication.md: convert to ReST (diff) | |
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docs: i2c: convert to ReST and add to driver-api bookset
Convert each file at I2C subsystem, renaming them to .rst and
adding to the driver-api book.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c/dev-interface')
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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface b/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface deleted file mode 100644 index fbed645ccd75..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface +++ /dev/null @@ -1,213 +0,0 @@ -Usually, i2c devices are controlled by a kernel driver. But it is also -possible to access all devices on an adapter from userspace, through -the /dev interface. You need to load module i2c-dev for this. - -Each registered i2c adapter gets a number, counting from 0. You can -examine /sys/class/i2c-dev/ to see what number corresponds to which adapter. -Alternatively, you can run "i2cdetect -l" to obtain a formatted list of all -i2c adapters present on your system at a given time. i2cdetect is part of -the i2c-tools package. - -I2C device files are character device files with major device number 89 -and a minor device number corresponding to the number assigned as -explained above. They should be called "i2c-%d" (i2c-0, i2c-1, ..., -i2c-10, ...). All 256 minor device numbers are reserved for i2c. - - -C example -========= - -So let's say you want to access an i2c adapter from a C program. -First, you need to include these two headers: - - #include <linux/i2c-dev.h> - #include <i2c/smbus.h> - -Now, you have to decide which adapter you want to access. You should -inspect /sys/class/i2c-dev/ or run "i2cdetect -l" to decide this. -Adapter numbers are assigned somewhat dynamically, so you can not -assume much about them. They can even change from one boot to the next. - -Next thing, open the device file, as follows: - - int file; - int adapter_nr = 2; /* probably dynamically determined */ - char filename[20]; - - snprintf(filename, 19, "/dev/i2c-%d", adapter_nr); - file = open(filename, O_RDWR); - if (file < 0) { - /* ERROR HANDLING; you can check errno to see what went wrong */ - exit(1); - } - -When you have opened the device, you must specify with what device -address you want to communicate: - - int addr = 0x40; /* The I2C address */ - - if (ioctl(file, I2C_SLAVE, addr) < 0) { - /* ERROR HANDLING; you can check errno to see what went wrong */ - exit(1); - } - -Well, you are all set up now. You can now use SMBus commands or plain -I2C to communicate with your device. SMBus commands are preferred if -the device supports them. Both are illustrated below. - - __u8 reg = 0x10; /* Device register to access */ - __s32 res; - char buf[10]; - - /* Using SMBus commands */ - res = i2c_smbus_read_word_data(file, reg); - if (res < 0) { - /* ERROR HANDLING: i2c transaction failed */ - } else { - /* res contains the read word */ - } - - /* - * Using I2C Write, equivalent of - * i2c_smbus_write_word_data(file, reg, 0x6543) - */ - buf[0] = reg; - buf[1] = 0x43; - buf[2] = 0x65; - if (write(file, buf, 3) != 3) { - /* ERROR HANDLING: i2c transaction failed */ - } - - /* Using I2C Read, equivalent of i2c_smbus_read_byte(file) */ - if (read(file, buf, 1) != 1) { - /* ERROR HANDLING: i2c transaction failed */ - } else { - /* buf[0] contains the read byte */ - } - -Note that only a subset of the I2C and SMBus protocols can be achieved by -the means of read() and write() calls. In particular, so-called combined -transactions (mixing read and write messages in the same transaction) -aren't supported. For this reason, this interface is almost never used by -user-space programs. - -IMPORTANT: because of the use of inline functions, you *have* to use -'-O' or some variation when you compile your program! - - -Full interface description -========================== - -The following IOCTLs are defined: - -ioctl(file, I2C_SLAVE, long addr) - Change slave address. The address is passed in the 7 lower bits of the - argument (except for 10 bit addresses, passed in the 10 lower bits in this - case). - -ioctl(file, I2C_TENBIT, long select) - Selects ten bit addresses if select not equals 0, selects normal 7 bit - addresses if select equals 0. Default 0. This request is only valid - if the adapter has I2C_FUNC_10BIT_ADDR. - -ioctl(file, I2C_PEC, long select) - Selects SMBus PEC (packet error checking) generation and verification - if select not equals 0, disables if select equals 0. Default 0. - Used only for SMBus transactions. This request only has an effect if the - the adapter has I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_PEC; it is still safe if not, it just - doesn't have any effect. - -ioctl(file, I2C_FUNCS, unsigned long *funcs) - Gets the adapter functionality and puts it in *funcs. - -ioctl(file, I2C_RDWR, struct i2c_rdwr_ioctl_data *msgset) - Do combined read/write transaction without stop in between. - Only valid if the adapter has I2C_FUNC_I2C. The argument is - a pointer to a - - struct i2c_rdwr_ioctl_data { - struct i2c_msg *msgs; /* ptr to array of simple messages */ - int nmsgs; /* number of messages to exchange */ - } - - The msgs[] themselves contain further pointers into data buffers. - The function will write or read data to or from that buffers depending - on whether the I2C_M_RD flag is set in a particular message or not. - The slave address and whether to use ten bit address mode has to be - set in each message, overriding the values set with the above ioctl's. - -ioctl(file, I2C_SMBUS, struct i2c_smbus_ioctl_data *args) - If possible, use the provided i2c_smbus_* methods described below instead - of issuing direct ioctls. - -You can do plain i2c transactions by using read(2) and write(2) calls. -You do not need to pass the address byte; instead, set it through -ioctl I2C_SLAVE before you try to access the device. - -You can do SMBus level transactions (see documentation file smbus-protocol -for details) through the following functions: - __s32 i2c_smbus_write_quick(int file, __u8 value); - __s32 i2c_smbus_read_byte(int file); - __s32 i2c_smbus_write_byte(int file, __u8 value); - __s32 i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(int file, __u8 command); - __s32 i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(int file, __u8 command, __u8 value); - __s32 i2c_smbus_read_word_data(int file, __u8 command); - __s32 i2c_smbus_write_word_data(int file, __u8 command, __u16 value); - __s32 i2c_smbus_process_call(int file, __u8 command, __u16 value); - __s32 i2c_smbus_read_block_data(int file, __u8 command, __u8 *values); - __s32 i2c_smbus_write_block_data(int file, __u8 command, __u8 length, - __u8 *values); -All these transactions return -1 on failure; you can read errno to see -what happened. The 'write' transactions return 0 on success; the -'read' transactions return the read value, except for read_block, which -returns the number of values read. The block buffers need not be longer -than 32 bytes. - -The above functions are made available by linking against the libi2c library, -which is provided by the i2c-tools project. See: -https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git/. - - -Implementation details -====================== - -For the interested, here's the code flow which happens inside the kernel -when you use the /dev interface to I2C: - -1* Your program opens /dev/i2c-N and calls ioctl() on it, as described in -section "C example" above. - -2* These open() and ioctl() calls are handled by the i2c-dev kernel -driver: see i2c-dev.c:i2cdev_open() and i2c-dev.c:i2cdev_ioctl(), -respectively. You can think of i2c-dev as a generic I2C chip driver -that can be programmed from user-space. - -3* Some ioctl() calls are for administrative tasks and are handled by -i2c-dev directly. Examples include I2C_SLAVE (set the address of the -device you want to access) and I2C_PEC (enable or disable SMBus error -checking on future transactions.) - -4* Other ioctl() calls are converted to in-kernel function calls by -i2c-dev. Examples include I2C_FUNCS, which queries the I2C adapter -functionality using i2c.h:i2c_get_functionality(), and I2C_SMBUS, which -performs an SMBus transaction using i2c-core-smbus.c:i2c_smbus_xfer(). - -The i2c-dev driver is responsible for checking all the parameters that -come from user-space for validity. After this point, there is no -difference between these calls that came from user-space through i2c-dev -and calls that would have been performed by kernel I2C chip drivers -directly. This means that I2C bus drivers don't need to implement -anything special to support access from user-space. - -5* These i2c.h functions are wrappers to the actual implementation of -your I2C bus driver. Each adapter must declare callback functions -implementing these standard calls. i2c.h:i2c_get_functionality() calls -i2c_adapter.algo->functionality(), while -i2c-core-smbus.c:i2c_smbus_xfer() calls either -adapter.algo->smbus_xfer() if it is implemented, or if not, -i2c-core-smbus.c:i2c_smbus_xfer_emulated() which in turn calls -i2c_adapter.algo->master_xfer(). - -After your I2C bus driver has processed these requests, execution runs -up the call chain, with almost no processing done, except by i2c-dev to -package the returned data, if any, in suitable format for the ioctl. |