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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-26 12:15:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-26 12:15:41 -0700
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Merge tag 'char-misc-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here's the "big" pull request for 3.6-rc1 for the char/misc drivers. It's really just a few updates to the mei driver, plus 4 other tiny patches, nothing big at all. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" * tag 'char-misc-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: mei: use module_pci_driver powerpc/BSR: cleanup the error path of bsr_init mei: mei_irq_thread_write_handler - line break fix mei: streamline the _mei_irq_thread_close/ioctol functions mei: introduce mei_data2slots wrapper mei: mei_wd_host_init: update the comment mei: remove write only wariable wd_due_counter mei: mei_device can be const for mei register access functions mei: revamp host buffer interface function mei: don't query HCSR for host buffer depth mei: group wd_interface_reg with watchdog variables within struct mei_device mei: mei_irq_thread_write_handler check for overflow mei: make mei_write_message more readable mei: check for error codes that mei_flow_ctrl_creds retuns misc: at25: Parse dt settings misc: hpilo: increase number of max supported channels mei: mei.txt: minor grammar fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/at25.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt14
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/at25.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/at25.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ab3c327929dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/at25.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Atmel AT25 eeprom
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : "atmel,at25".
+- reg : chip select number
+- spi-max-frequency : max spi frequency to use
+
+- at25,byte-len : total eeprom size in bytes
+- at25,addr-mode : addr-mode flags, as defined in include/linux/spi/eeprom.h
+- at25,page-size : size of the eeprom page
+
+Examples:
+at25@0 {
+ compatible = "atmel,at25";
+ reg = <0>
+ spi-max-frequency = <5000000>;
+
+ at25,byte-len = <0x8000>;
+ at25,addr-mode = <2>;
+ at25,page-size = <64>;
+};
diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
index 2785697da59d..6ec702950719 100644
--- a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
+++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
@@ -50,25 +50,25 @@ Intel MEI Driver
The driver exposes a misc device called /dev/mei.
An application maintains communication with an Intel ME feature while
-/dev/mei is open. The binding to a specific features is performed by calling
+/dev/mei is open. The binding to a specific feature is performed by calling
MEI_CONNECT_CLIENT_IOCTL, which passes the desired UUID.
The number of instances of an Intel ME feature that can be opened
at the same time depends on the Intel ME feature, but most of the
features allow only a single instance.
The Intel AMT Host Interface (Intel AMTHI) feature supports multiple
-simultaneous user applications. Therefore, the Intel MEI driver handles
-this internally by maintaining request queues for the applications.
+simultaneous user connected applications. The Intel MEI driver
+handles this internally by maintaining request queues for the applications.
-The driver is oblivious to data that is passed between firmware feature
+The driver is transparent to data that are passed between firmware feature
and host application.
Because some of the Intel ME features can change the system
configuration, the driver by default allows only a privileged
user to access it.
-A code snippet for an application communicating with
-Intel AMTHI client:
+A code snippet for an application communicating with Intel AMTHI client:
+
struct mei_connect_client_data data;
fd = open(MEI_DEVICE);
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ The Intel AMT Watchdog is composed of two parts:
2) Intel MEI driver - connects to the watchdog feature, configures the
watchdog and sends the heartbeats.
-The Intel MEI driver uses the kernel watchdog to configure the Intel AMT
+The Intel MEI driver uses the kernel watchdog API to configure the Intel AMT
Watchdog and to send heartbeats to it. The default timeout of the
watchdog is 120 seconds.