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.
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.
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
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.
22 SMBus block command support is disabled by default, and must be enabled
23 explicitly by setting the respective bits (0x03000000) in the functionality
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.
30 The typical use-case is like this:
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
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.
42 The SMBus addresses to emulate chips at.
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
54 Optional bank settings. They tell which bits in which register
55 select the active bank, as well as the range of banked registers.
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.
62 If you spam it hard enough, printk can be lossy. This module really wants
63 something like relayfs.