This patch fix spelling typos in Documentation/misc-devices.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

There is no point in implementing a detect callback for the MAX6875, as
this device can't be detected. It was there solely to handle "force"
module parameters to instantiate devices, but now we have a better sysfs
interface that can do the same.

So we can get rid of the ugly module parameters and the detect callback.
This basically divides the binary module size by 2.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>

Some times ago the eeprom and max6875 drivers moved to
drivers/misc/eeprom, but their documentation did not follow. It's
finally time to get rid of Documentation/i2c/chips.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Ben Gardner <gardner.ben@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>

The new-style max6875 driver implements the optional detect() callback
to cover the use cases of the legacy driver. I'm curious if anyone
really needs this though, so it might be removed in the feature.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Let the drivers specify how many bytes they want to read with
i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(). So far, the block count was
hard-coded to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32), which did not make much sense.
Many driver authors complained about this before, and I believe it's
about time to fix it. Right now, authors have to do technically stupid
things, such as individual byte reads or full-fledged I2C messaging,
to work around the problem. We do not want to encourage that.

I even found that some bus drivers (e.g. i2c-amd8111) already
implemented I2C block read the "right" way, that is, they didn't
follow the old, broken standard. The fact that it was never noticed
before just shows how little i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() was used,
which isn't that surprising given how broken its prototype was so far.

There are some obvious compatiblity considerations:
* This changes the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype. Users
  outside the kernel tree will notice at compilation time, and will
  have to update their code.
* User-space has access to i2c_smbus_xfer() directly using i2c-dev, so
  the changed expectations would affect tools such as i2cdump. In order
  to preserve binary compatibility, we give I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA
  a new numeric value, and define I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_BROKEN with the
  old numeric value. When i2c-dev receives a transaction with the
  old value, it can convert it to the new format on the fly.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

Fix a spelling error and change a sysfs name.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Updates to the max6875 driver documentation.
This brings the documentation in sync with the code, which was recently
simplified.

This patch is based off 2.6.13-rc2-mm2.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Here is a proposed documentation update for the new max6875 i2c chip
driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch adds support for the MAX6875/MAX6874 chips.
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>