[PATCH] i2c-viapro: Implement I2C Block transactions
Implement the I2C block transactions on VIA chips which support them:
VT82C686B, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235 and VT8237R. This speeds up EEPROM
accesses by a factor 10 or so.
I would like to thank Antonino A. Daplas, Hinko Kocevar, Salah Coronya
and Andreas Henriksson for their help in testing this new feature.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 7 +++++-
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
index ef0f1e9..387cbd40 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,
Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>,
Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
- Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
+ Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>,
+ Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Module Parameters
-----------------
@@ -43,3 +44,7 @@
If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like
enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB.
+
+Except for the oldest chips (VT82C596A/B, VT82C686A and most probably
+VT8231), this driver supports I2C block transactions. Such transactions
+are mainly useful to read from and write to EEPROMs.
