From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfram Sang Subject: [PATCH v2 3/4] i2c: slave: add documentation for i2c-slave-eeprom Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:26:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1427099199-3628-4-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de> References: <1427099199-3628-1-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de> Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1427099199-3628-1-git-send-email-wsa-z923LK4zBo2bacvFa/9K2g@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-sh-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Magnus Damm , Simon Horman , Laurent Pinchart , Geert Uytterhoeven , Wolfram Sang , =?UTF-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= , Geert Uytterhoeven List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org From: Wolfram Sang Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven --- Changes since V1: added acks Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend b/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..c8444ef82acfa3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/slave-eeprom-backend @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Linux I2C slave eeprom backend +============================== + +by Wolfram Sang in 2014-15 + +This is a proof-of-concept backend which acts like an EEPROM on the connected +I2C bus. The memory contents can be modified from userspace via this file +located in sysfs: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices//slave-eeprom + +As of 2015, Linux doesn't support poll on binary sysfs files, so there is no +notfication when another master changed the content. + -- 2.1.4