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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-03-15 16:23:54 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-03-15 16:23:54 -0700 |
| commit | 4961e02f1999e1c3468c09b2669c94d7c3ae82a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 44c15abb09d7ba5e17a9aba95ee246648b1c1a8a /Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol | |
| parent | d14a0ebda7d3daede1a99c01527affb9ceaa4c22 (diff) | |
| parent | a3d3203e4bb40f253b1541e310dc0f9305be7c84 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol index 9df47441f0e7..7c19d1a2bea0 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol +++ b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol @@ -185,6 +185,22 @@ the protocol. All ARP communications use slave address 0x61 and require PEC checksums. +SMBus Alert +=========== + +SMBus Alert was introduced in Revision 1.0 of the specification. + +The SMBus alert protocol allows several SMBus slave devices to share a +single interrupt pin on the SMBus master, while still allowing the master +to know which slave triggered the interrupt. + +This is implemented the following way in the Linux kernel: +* I2C bus drivers which support SMBus alert should call + i2c_setup_smbus_alert() to setup SMBus alert support. +* I2C drivers for devices which can trigger SMBus alerts should implement + the optional alert() callback. + + I2C Block Transactions ====================== |
