1 ======== 2 i2c-stub 3 ======== 4 5 Description 6 =========== 7 8 This module is a very simple fake I2C/SMBus driver. It implements six 9 types of SMBus commands: write quick, (r/w) byte, (r/w) byte data, (r/w) 10 word data, (r/w) I2C block data, and (r/w) SMBus block data. 11 12 You need to provide chip addresses as a module parameter when loading this 13 driver, which will then only react to SMBus commands to these addresses. 14 15 No hardware is needed nor associated with this module. It will accept write 16 quick commands to the specified addresses; it will respond to the other 17 commands (also to the specified addresses) by reading from or writing to 18 arrays in memory. It will also spam the kernel logs for every command it 19 handles. 20 21 A pointer register with auto-increment is implemented for all byte 22 operations. This allows for continuous byte reads like those supported by 23 EEPROMs, among others. 24 25 SMBus block command support is disabled by default, and must be enabled 26 explicitly by setting the respective bits (0x03000000) in the functionality 27 module parameter. 28 29 SMBus block commands must be written to configure an SMBus command for 30 SMBus block operations. Writes can be partial. Block read commands always 31 return the number of bytes selected with the largest write so far. 32 33 The typical use-case is like this: 34 35 1. load this module 36 2. use i2cset (from the i2c-tools project) to pre-load some data 37 3. load the target chip driver module 38 4. observe its behavior in the kernel log 39 40 There's a script named i2c-stub-from-dump in the i2c-tools package which 41 can load register values automatically from a chip dump. 42 43 Parameters 44 ========== 45 46 int chip_addr[10]: 47 The SMBus addresses to emulate chips at. 48 49 unsigned long functionality: 50 Functionality override, to disable some commands. See I2C_FUNC_* 51 constants in <linux/i2c.h> for the suitable values. For example, 52 value 0x1f0000 would only enable the quick, byte and byte data 53 commands. 54 55 u8 bank_reg[10], u8 bank_mask[10], u8 bank_start[10], u8 bank_end[10]: 56 Optional bank settings. They tell which bits in which register 57 select the active bank, as well as the range of banked registers. 58 59 Caveats 60 ======= 61 62 If your target driver polls some byte or word waiting for it to change, the 63 stub could lock it up. Use i2cset to unlock it. 64 65 If you spam it hard enough, printk can be lossy. This module really wants 66 something like relayfs.
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