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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c/writing-clients')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/writing-clients | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients index a9328d869..a66debc0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients +++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ address. /* dec_use */ &foo_dev_use /* May be NULL */ } -The name can be choosen freely, and may be upto 40 characters long. Please +The name can be chosen freely, and may be upto 40 characters long. Please use something descriptive here. The id should be a unique ID. The range 0xf000 to 0xffff is reserved for @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ kernel booting is completed. Command function ================ -A generic ioctl-like function call back is supported. You will seldomly +A generic ioctl-like function call back is supported. You will seldom need this. You may even set it to NULL. /* No commands defined */ @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ SMBus communication u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values); -All these tranactions return -1 on failure. The 'write' transactions +All these transactions return -1 on failure. The 'write' transactions return 0 on success; the 'read' transactions return the read value, except for read_block, which returns the number of values read. The block buffers need not be longer than 32 bytes. @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ Below all general purpose routines are listed, that were not mentioned before. /* This call returns a unique low identifier for each registered adapter, - * or -1 if the adapter was not regisitered. + * or -1 if the adapter was not registered. */ extern int i2c_adapter_id(struct i2c_adapter *adap); @@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ The third, sixth and ninth parameters should always be NULL, and the fourth should always be 0. The fifth is the mode of the /proc file; 0644 is safe, as the file will be owned by root:root. -The seventh and eigth parameters should be &sensors_proc_real and +The seventh and eighth parameters should be &sensors_proc_real and &sensors_sysctl_real if you want to export lists of reals (scaled integers). You can also use your own function for them, as usual. Finally, the last parameter is the call-back to gather the data |