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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2008-07-16 19:30:06 +0200
committerJean Delvare <khali@mahadeva.delvare>2008-07-16 19:30:06 +0200
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parenti2c: Convert the pcf8574 driver to a new-style i2c driver (diff)
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i2c: Convert the pcf8575 driver to a new-style i2c driver
The new-style pcf8575 driver implements the optional detect() callback to cover the use cases of the legacy driver. Warning: users will now have to use the force module parameter to get the driver to attach to their device. That's not a bad thing as these devices can't be detected anyway. Note that this doesn't change the fact that this driver is deprecated in favor of gpio/pcf857x. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf85759
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575 b/Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575
index 25f5698a61cf..40b268eb276f 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575
@@ -40,12 +40,9 @@ Detection
---------
There is no method known to detect whether a chip on a given I2C address is
-a PCF8575 or whether it is any other I2C device. So there are two alternatives
-to let the driver find the installed PCF8575 devices:
-- Load this driver after any other I2C driver for I2C devices with addresses
- in the range 0x20 .. 0x27.
-- Pass the I2C bus and address of the installed PCF8575 devices explicitly to
- the driver at load time via the probe=... or force=... parameters.
+a PCF8575 or whether it is any other I2C device, so you have to pass the I2C
+bus and address of the installed PCF8575 devices explicitly to the driver at
+load time via the force=... parameter.
/sys interface
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