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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index 38f88b6ae405..b886f52a9aac 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ X!Ilib/string.c !Elib/cmdline.c </sect1> - <sect1><title>CRC Functions</title> + <sect1 id="crc"><title>CRC Functions</title> +!Elib/crc7.c !Elib/crc16.c +!Elib/crc-itu-t.c !Elib/crc32.c !Elib/crc-ccitt.c </sect1> @@ -157,7 +159,6 @@ X!Ilib/string.c !Earch/i386/lib/usercopy.c </sect1> <sect1><title>More Memory Management Functions</title> -!Iinclude/linux/rmap.h !Emm/readahead.c !Emm/filemap.c !Emm/memory.c @@ -379,7 +380,6 @@ X!Edrivers/base/interface.c !Edrivers/base/bus.c </sect1> <sect1><title>Device Drivers Power Management</title> -!Edrivers/base/power/main.c !Edrivers/base/power/resume.c !Edrivers/base/power/suspend.c </sect1> @@ -397,15 +397,19 @@ X!Edrivers/acpi/pci_bind.c --> </sect1> <sect1><title>Device drivers PnP support</title> -!Edrivers/pnp/core.c +!Idrivers/pnp/core.c <!-- No correct structured comments X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c --> !Edrivers/pnp/card.c -!Edrivers/pnp/driver.c +!Idrivers/pnp/driver.c !Edrivers/pnp/manager.c !Edrivers/pnp/support.c </sect1> + <sect1><title>Userspace IO devices</title> +!Edrivers/uio/uio.c +!Iinclude/linux/uio_driver.h + </sect1> </chapter> <chapter id="blkdev"> @@ -643,4 +647,78 @@ X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c !Edrivers/spi/spi.c </chapter> + <chapter id="i2c"> + <title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title> + + <para> + I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C") + is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is + widely used where low data rate communications suffice. + Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another + name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus. + I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving + board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues. + Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up + to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet + found wide use. + I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to + arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to + synchronize clocks from slower clients. + </para> + + <para> + The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master + side of bus interactions, not the slave side. + The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, + and two kinds of device. + An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds + to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and + exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing + each I2C bus segment it manages. + On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a + <structname>struct i2c_client</structname>. Those devices will + be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>, + which should follow the standard Linux driver model. + (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.) + There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at + this writing all such functions are usable only from task context. + </para> + + <para> + The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus + systems are also I2C conformant. The electrical constraints are + tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages + and idioms. Controllers that support I2C can also support most + SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol + options that an I2C controller will. + There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations, + either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to + i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations. + </para> + +!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h +!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info +!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c + </chapter> + + <chapter id="splice"> + <title>splice API</title> + <para> + splice is a method for moving blocks of data around inside the + kernel, without continually transferring them between the kernel + and user space. + </para> +!Ffs/splice.c + </chapter> + + <chapter id="pipes"> + <title>pipes API</title> + <para> + Pipe interfaces are all for in-kernel (builtin image) use. + They are not exported for use by modules. + </para> +!Iinclude/linux/pipe_fs_i.h +!Ffs/pipe.c + </chapter> + </book> |