From 14674e70119ea01549ce593d8901a797f8a90f74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Brown Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 10:55:34 +0200 Subject: i2c: Split I2C_M_NOSTART support out of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING Since there are uses for I2C_M_NOSTART which are much more sensible and standard than most of the protocol mangling functionality (the main one being gather writes to devices where something like a register address needs to be inserted before a block of data) create a new I2C_FUNC_NOSTART for this feature and update all the users to use it. Also strengthen the disrecommendation of the protocol mangling while we're at it. In the case of regmap-i2c we remove the requirement for mangling as I2C_M_NOSTART is the only mangling feature which is being used. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Wolfram Sang Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare --- Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol') diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol index 10518dd58814..0b3e62d1f77a 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol +++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-protocol @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ a byte read, followed by a byte write: Modified transactions ===================== -We have found some I2C devices that needs the following modifications: +The following modifications to the I2C protocol can also be generated, +with the exception of I2C_M_NOSTART these are usually only needed to +work around device issues: Flag I2C_M_NOSTART: In a combined transaction, no 'S Addr Wr/Rd [A]' is generated at some @@ -60,6 +62,11 @@ We have found some I2C devices that needs the following modifications: we do not generate Addr, but we do generate the startbit S. This will probably confuse all other clients on your bus, so don't try this. + This is often used to gather transmits from multiple data buffers in + system memory into something that appears as a single transfer to the + I2C device but may also be used between direction changes by some + rare devices. + Flags I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR This toggles the Rd/Wr flag. That is, if you want to do a write, but need to emit an Rd instead of a Wr, or vice versa, you set this -- cgit v1.2.1