i2c: slave: add documentation for i2c-slave-eeprom
authorWolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:26:38 +0000 (09:26 +0100)
committerWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:53:39 +0000 (16:53 +0100)
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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+Linux I2C slave eeprom backend
+==============================
+
+by Wolfram Sang <wsa@sang-engineering.com> in 2014-15
+
+This is a proof-of-concept backend which acts like an EEPROM on the connected
+I2C bus. The memory contents can be modified from userspace via this file
+located in sysfs:
+
+       /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<device-direcory>/slave-eeprom
+
+As of 2015, Linux doesn't support poll on binary sysfs files, so there is no
+notfication when another master changed the content.
+