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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst b/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst index 92a403d21a62..3b93cb88eebc 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/i2c/old-module-parameters.rst @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ I2C device driver binding control from user-space Up to kernel 2.6.32, many I2C drivers used helper macros provided by <linux/i2c.h> which created standard module parameters to let the user control how the driver would probe I2C buses and attach to devices. These -parameters were known as "probe" (to let the driver probe for an extra -address), "force" (to forcibly attach the driver to a given device) and -"ignore" (to prevent a driver from probing a given address). +parameters were known as ``probe`` (to let the driver probe for an extra +address), ``force`` (to forcibly attach the driver to a given device) and +``ignore`` (to prevent a driver from probing a given address). With the conversion of the I2C subsystem to the standard device driver binding model, it became clear that these per-module parameters were no @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ New method (sysfs interface):: # echo dummy 0x2f > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device # modprobe <driver> -Of course, it is important to instantiate the "dummy" device before loading +Of course, it is important to instantiate the ``dummy`` device before loading the driver. The dummy device will be handled by i2c-core itself, preventing other drivers from binding to it later on. If there is a real device at the problematic address, and you want another driver to bind to it, then simply -pass the name of the device in question instead of "dummy". +pass the name of the device in question instead of ``dummy``. |