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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============
+MHI Topology
+============
+
+This document provides information about the MHI topology modeling and
+representation in the kernel.
+
+MHI Controller
+--------------
+
+MHI controller driver manages the interaction with the MHI client devices
+such as the external modems and WiFi chipsets. It is also the MHI bus master
+which is in charge of managing the physical link between the host and device.
+It is however not involved in the actual data transfer as the data transfer
+is taken care by the physical bus such as PCIe. Each controller driver exposes
+channels and events based on the client device type.
+
+Below are the roles of the MHI controller driver:
+
+* Turns on the physical bus and establishes the link to the device
+* Configures IRQs, IOMMU, and IOMEM
+* Allocates struct mhi_controller and registers with the MHI bus framework
+ with channel and event configurations using mhi_register_controller.
+* Initiates power on and shutdown sequence
+* Initiates suspend and resume power management operations of the device.
+
+MHI Device
+----------
+
+MHI device is the logical device which binds to a maximum of two MHI channels
+for bi-directional communication. Once MHI is in powered on state, the MHI
+core will create MHI devices based on the channel configuration exposed
+by the controller. There can be a single MHI device for each channel or for a
+couple of channels.
+
+Each supported device is enumerated in::
+
+ /sys/bus/mhi/devices/
+
+MHI Driver
+----------
+
+MHI driver is the client driver which binds to one or more MHI devices. The MHI
+driver sends and receives the upper-layer protocol packets like IP packets,
+modem control messages, and diagnostics messages over MHI. The MHI core will
+bind the MHI devices to the MHI driver.
+
+Each supported driver is enumerated in::
+
+ /sys/bus/mhi/drivers/
+
+Below are the roles of the MHI driver:
+
+* Registers the driver with the MHI bus framework using mhi_driver_register.
+* Prepares the device for transfer by calling mhi_prepare_for_transfer.
+* Initiates data transfer by calling mhi_queue_transfer.
+* Once the data transfer is finished, calls mhi_unprepare_from_transfer to
+ end data transfer.