From b5527a7766f0505dc72efe3cefe5e9dea826f611 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:23:42 +0100 Subject: i2c: Add SMBus alert support SMBus alert support. 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 based on preliminary work by David Brownell. The key difference between David's implementation and mine is that his was part of i2c-core, while mine is split into a separate, standalone module named i2c-smbus. The i2c-smbus module is meant to include support for all SMBus extensions to the I2C protocol in the future. The benefit of this approach is a zero cost for I2C bus segments which do not need SMBus alert support. Where David's implementation increased the size of struct i2c_adapter by 7% (40 bytes on i386), mine doesn't touch it. Where David's implementation added over 150 lines of code to i2c-core (+10%), mine doesn't touch it. The only change that touches all the users of the i2c subsystem is a new callback in struct i2c_driver (common to both implementations.) I seem to remember Trent was worried about the footprint of David'd implementation, hopefully mine addresses the issue. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron Cc: David Brownell Cc: Trent Piepho --- Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/i2c') diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol b/Documentation/i2c/smbus-protocol index 9df47441f0e..7c19d1a2bea 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 ====================== -- cgit v1.2.3