[PATCH] docs: driver-api: i2c: remove some outdated information

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 09:47:14 EST


a) Linux can be an I2C slave meanwhile
b) all drivers except one use the driver model currently

Update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst
index f3939f7852bd59..0bf86a445d0135 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to arbitrate
between masters, as well as to handshake and to synchronize clocks from
slower clients.

-The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master side of bus
-interactions, not the slave side. The programming interface is
+The Linux I2C programming interfaces support the master side of bus
+interactions and the slave side. The programming interface is
structured around two kinds of driver, and two kinds of device. An I2C
"Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds to a
physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and exposes a
@@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and exposes a
I2C bus segment it manages. On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices
represented by a :c:type:`struct i2c_client <i2c_client>`.
Those devices will be bound to a :c:type:`struct i2c_driver
-<i2c_driver>`, which should follow the standard Linux driver
-model. (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.) There are
-functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at this writing
+<i2c_driver>`, which should follow the standard Linux driver model. There
+are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at this writing
all such functions are usable only from task context.

The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus
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