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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst | 8 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst index 1238f1fa3382..875ebe9e78e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst +++ b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices.rst @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ present or not (for example for an optional feature which is not present on cheap variants of a board but you have no way to tell them apart), or it may have different addresses from one board to the next (manufacturer changing its design without notice). In this case, you can call -i2c_new_probed_device() instead of i2c_new_device(). +i2c_new_scanned_device() instead of i2c_new_device(). Example (from the nxp OHCI driver):: @@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ Example (from the nxp OHCI driver):: i2c_adap = i2c_get_adapter(2); memset(&i2c_info, 0, sizeof(struct i2c_board_info)); strscpy(i2c_info.type, "isp1301_nxp", sizeof(i2c_info.type)); - isp1301_i2c_client = i2c_new_probed_device(i2c_adap, &i2c_info, - normal_i2c, NULL); + isp1301_i2c_client = i2c_new_scanned_device(i2c_adap, &i2c_info, + normal_i2c, NULL); i2c_put_adapter(i2c_adap); (...) } @@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ simply gives up. The driver which instantiated the I2C device is responsible for destroying it on cleanup. This is done by calling i2c_unregister_device() on the pointer that was earlier returned by i2c_new_device() or -i2c_new_probed_device(). +i2c_new_scanned_device(). Method 3: Probe an I2C bus for certain devices ---------------------------------------------- Sometimes you do not have enough information about an I2C device, not even -to call i2c_new_probed_device(). The typical case is hardware monitoring +to call i2c_new_scanned_device(). The typical case is hardware monitoring chips on PC mainboards. There are several dozen models, which can live at 25 different addresses. Given the huge number of mainboards out there, it is next to impossible to build an exhaustive list of the hardware diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst index dddf0a14ab7c..ced309b5e0cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients.rst @@ -185,14 +185,14 @@ Sometimes you know that a device is connected to a given I2C bus, but you don't know the exact address it uses. This happens on TV adapters for example, where the same driver supports dozens of slightly different models, and I2C device addresses change from one model to the next. In -that case, you can use the i2c_new_probed_device() variant, which is +that case, you can use the i2c_new_scanned_device() variant, which is similar to i2c_new_device(), except that it takes an additional list of possible I2C addresses to probe. A device is created for the first responsive address in the list. If you expect more than one device to be -present in the address range, simply call i2c_new_probed_device() that +present in the address range, simply call i2c_new_scanned_device() that many times. -The call to i2c_new_device() or i2c_new_probed_device() typically happens +The call to i2c_new_device() or i2c_new_scanned_device() typically happens in the I2C bus driver. You may want to save the returned i2c_client reference for later use. @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Device Deletion --------------- Each I2C device which has been created using i2c_new_device() or -i2c_new_probed_device() can be unregistered by calling +i2c_new_scanned_device() can be unregistered by calling i2c_unregister_device(). If you don't call it explicitly, it will be called automatically before the underlying I2C bus itself is removed, as a device can't survive its parent in the device driver model. |