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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> | 2015-02-23 20:02:19 +0100 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> | 2015-02-23 20:02:19 +0100 |
commit | 99a85b901eb54f62ff0c3fd6eb56e60b7b9f15c8 (patch) | |
tree | 0c6637b7d2172e079c30e966847326767cbaf45c /Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-client-bus.txt | |
parent | [media] dvb_frontend: start media pipeline while thread is running (diff) | |
parent | Linux 4.0-rc1 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v4.0-rc1' into patchwork
Linux 34.0-rc1
* tag 'v4.0-rc1': (8947 commits)
Linux 4.0-rc1
autofs4 copy_dev_ioctl(): keep the value of ->size we'd used for allocation
procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals
debugfs: leave freeing a symlink body until inode eviction
Documentation/filesystems/Locking: ->get_sb() is long gone
trylock_super(): replacement for grab_super_passive()
fanotify: Fix up scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions
Cachefiles: Fix up scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions
VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry)
SELinux: Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
Smack: Use d_is_positive() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
TOMOYO: Use d_is_dir() rather than d_inode and S_ISDIR()
Apparmor: Use d_is_positive/negative() rather than testing dentry->d_inode
Apparmor: mediated_filesystem() should use dentry->d_sb not inode->i_sb
VFS: Split DCACHE_FILE_TYPE into regular and special types
VFS: Add a fallthrough flag for marking virtual dentries
VFS: Add a whiteout dentry type
VFS: Introduce inode-getting helpers for layered/unioned fs environments
kernel: make READ_ONCE() valid on const arguments
blk-throttle: check stats_cpu before reading it from sysfs
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-client-bus.txt')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-client-bus.txt b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-client-bus.txt index f83910a8ce76..743be4ec8989 100644 --- a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-client-bus.txt +++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-client-bus.txt @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ Intel(R) Management Engine (ME) Client bus API -=============================================== +============================================== Rationale ========= + MEI misc character device is useful for dedicated applications to send and receive data to the many FW appliance found in Intel's ME from the user space. However for some of the ME functionalities it make sense to leverage existing software @@ -17,7 +18,8 @@ the existing code. MEI CL bus API -=========== +============== + A driver implementation for an MEI Client is very similar to existing bus based device drivers. The driver registers itself as an MEI CL bus driver through the mei_cl_driver structure: @@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ received buffers. Example ======= + As a theoretical example let's pretend the ME comes with a "contact" NFC IP. The driver init and exit routines for this device would look like: @@ -69,11 +72,11 @@ static struct mei_cl_device_id contact_mei_cl_tbl[] = { MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(mei_cl, contact_mei_cl_tbl); static struct mei_cl_driver contact_driver = { - .id_table = contact_mei_tbl, - .name = CONTACT_DRIVER_NAME, + .id_table = contact_mei_tbl, + .name = CONTACT_DRIVER_NAME, - .probe = contact_probe, - .remove = contact_remove, + .probe = contact_probe, + .remove = contact_remove, }; static int contact_init(void) @@ -109,7 +112,7 @@ int contact_probe(struct mei_cl_device *dev, struct mei_cl_device_id *id) mei_cl_register_event_cb(dev, contact_event_cb, contact); return 0; - } +} In the probe routine the driver first enable the MEI device and then registers an ME bus event handler which is as close as it can get to registering a |