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Based on kernel version 4.16.1. Page generated on 2018-04-09 11:53 EST.

1	MODULE: i2c-stub
2	
3	DESCRIPTION:
4	
5	This module is a very simple fake I2C/SMBus driver.  It implements six
6	types of SMBus commands: write quick, (r/w) byte, (r/w) byte data, (r/w)
7	word data, (r/w) I2C block data, and (r/w) SMBus block data.
8	
9	You need to provide chip addresses as a module parameter when loading this
10	driver, which will then only react to SMBus commands to these addresses.
11	
12	No hardware is needed nor associated with this module.  It will accept write
13	quick commands to the specified addresses; it will respond to the other
14	commands (also to the specified addresses) by reading from or writing to
15	arrays in memory.  It will also spam the kernel logs for every command it
16	handles.
17	
18	A pointer register with auto-increment is implemented for all byte
19	operations.  This allows for continuous byte reads like those supported by
20	EEPROMs, among others.
21	
22	SMBus block command support is disabled by default, and must be enabled
23	explicitly by setting the respective bits (0x03000000) in the functionality
24	module parameter.
25	
26	SMBus block commands must be written to configure an SMBus command for
27	SMBus block operations. Writes can be partial. Block read commands always
28	return the number of bytes selected with the largest write so far.
29	
30	The typical use-case is like this:
31		1. load this module
32		2. use i2cset (from the i2c-tools project) to pre-load some data
33		3. load the target chip driver module
34		4. observe its behavior in the kernel log
35	
36	There's a script named i2c-stub-from-dump in the i2c-tools package which
37	can load register values automatically from a chip dump.
38	
39	PARAMETERS:
40	
41	int chip_addr[10]:
42		The SMBus addresses to emulate chips at.
43	
44	unsigned long functionality:
45		Functionality override, to disable some commands. See I2C_FUNC_*
46		constants in <linux/i2c.h> for the suitable values. For example,
47		value 0x1f0000 would only enable the quick, byte and byte data
48		commands.
49	
50	u8 bank_reg[10]
51	u8 bank_mask[10]
52	u8 bank_start[10]
53	u8 bank_end[10]:
54		Optional bank settings. They tell which bits in which register
55		select the active bank, as well as the range of banked registers.
56	
57	CAVEATS:
58	
59	If your target driver polls some byte or word waiting for it to change, the
60	stub could lock it up.  Use i2cset to unlock it.
61	
62	If you spam it hard enough, printk can be lossy.  This module really wants
63	something like relayfs.
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