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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-sysfs.rst b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-sysfs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..78c54c658 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-sysfs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,387 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=============== +Linux I2C Sysfs +=============== + +Overview +======== + +I2C topology can be complex because of the existence of I2C MUX +(I2C Multiplexer). The Linux +kernel abstracts the MUX channels into logical I2C bus numbers. However, there +is a gap of knowledge to map from the I2C bus physical number and MUX topology +to logical I2C bus number. This doc is aimed to fill in this gap, so the +audience (hardware engineers and new software developers for example) can learn +the concept of logical I2C buses in the kernel, by knowing the physical I2C +topology and navigating through the I2C sysfs in Linux shell. This knowledge is +useful and essential to use ``i2c-tools`` for the purpose of development and +debugging. + +Target audience +--------------- + +People who need to use Linux shell to interact with I2C subsystem on a system +which the Linux is running on. + +Prerequisites +------------- + +1. Knowledge of general Linux shell file system commands and operations. + +2. General knowledge of I2C, I2C MUX and I2C topology. + +Location of I2C Sysfs +===================== + +Typically, the Linux Sysfs filesystem is mounted at the ``/sys`` directory, +so you can find the I2C Sysfs under ``/sys/bus/i2c/devices`` +where you can directly ``cd`` to it. +There is a list of symbolic links under that directory. The links that +start with ``i2c-`` are I2C buses, which may be either physical or logical. The +other links that begin with numbers and end with numbers are I2C devices, where +the first number is I2C bus number, and the second number is I2C address. + +Google Pixel 3 phone for example:: + + blueline:/sys/bus/i2c/devices $ ls + 0-0008 0-0061 1-0028 3-0043 4-0036 4-0041 i2c-1 i2c-3 + 0-000c 0-0066 2-0049 4-000b 4-0040 i2c-0 i2c-2 i2c-4 + +``i2c-2`` is an I2C bus whose number is 2, and ``2-0049`` is an I2C device +on bus 2 address 0x49 bound with a kernel driver. + +Terminology +=========== + +First, let us define some terms to avoid confusion in later sections. + +(Physical) I2C Bus Controller +----------------------------- + +The hardware system that the Linux kernel is running on may have multiple +physical I2C bus controllers. The controllers are hardware and physical, and the +system may define multiple registers in the memory space to manipulate the +controllers. Linux kernel has I2C bus drivers under source directory +``drivers/i2c/busses`` to translate kernel I2C API into register +operations for different systems. This terminology is not limited to Linux +kernel only. + +I2C Bus Physical Number +----------------------- + +For each physical I2C bus controller, the system vendor may assign a physical +number to each controller. For example, the first I2C bus controller which has +the lowest register addresses may be called ``I2C-0``. + +Logical I2C Bus +--------------- + +Every I2C bus number you see in Linux I2C Sysfs is a logical I2C bus with a +number assigned. This is similar to the fact that software code is usually +written upon virtual memory space, instead of physical memory space. + +Each logical I2C bus may be an abstraction of a physical I2C bus controller, or +an abstraction of a channel behind an I2C MUX. In case it is an abstraction of a +MUX channel, whenever we access an I2C device via a such logical bus, the kernel +will switch the I2C MUX for you to the proper channel as part of the +abstraction. + +Physical I2C Bus +---------------- + +If the logical I2C bus is a direct abstraction of a physical I2C bus controller, +let us call it a physical I2C bus. + +Caveat +------ + +This may be a confusing part for people who only know about the physical I2C +design of a board. It is actually possible to rename the I2C bus physical number +to a different number in logical I2C bus level in Device Tree Source (DTS) under +section ``aliases``. See ``arch/arm/boot/dts/nuvoton-npcm730-gsj.dts`` +for an example of DTS file. + +Best Practice: **(To kernel software developers)** It is better to keep the I2C +bus physical number the same as their corresponding logical I2C bus number, +instead of renaming or mapping them, so that it may be less confusing to other +users. These physical I2C buses can be served as good starting points for I2C +MUX fanouts. For the following examples, we will assume that the physical I2C +bus has a number same as their I2C bus physical number. + +Walk through Logical I2C Bus +============================ + +For the following content, we will use a more complex I2C topology as an +example. Here is a brief graph for the I2C topology. If you do not understand +this graph at first glance, do not be afraid to continue reading this doc +and review it when you finish reading. + +:: + + i2c-7 (physical I2C bus controller 7) + `-- 7-0071 (4-channel I2C MUX at 0x71) + |-- i2c-60 (channel-0) + |-- i2c-73 (channel-1) + | |-- 73-0040 (I2C sensor device with hwmon directory) + | |-- 73-0070 (I2C MUX at 0x70, exists in DTS, but failed to probe) + | `-- 73-0072 (8-channel I2C MUX at 0x72) + | |-- i2c-78 (channel-0) + | |-- ... (channel-1...6, i2c-79...i2c-84) + | `-- i2c-85 (channel-7) + |-- i2c-86 (channel-2) + `-- i2c-203 (channel-3) + +Distinguish Physical and Logical I2C Bus +---------------------------------------- + +One simple way to distinguish between a physical I2C bus and a logical I2C bus, +is to read the symbolic link ``device`` under the I2C bus directory by using +command ``ls -l`` or ``readlink``. + +An alternative symbolic link to check is ``mux_device``. This link only exists +in logical I2C bus directory which is fanned out from another I2C bus. +Reading this link will also tell you which I2C MUX device created +this logical I2C bus. + +If the symbolic link points to a directory ending with ``.i2c``, it should be a +physical I2C bus, directly abstracting a physical I2C bus controller. For +example:: + + $ readlink /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/device + ../../f0087000.i2c + $ ls /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/mux_device + ls: /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/mux_device: No such file or directory + +In this case, ``i2c-7`` is a physical I2C bus, so it does not have the symbolic +link ``mux_device`` under its directory. And if the kernel software developer +follows the common practice by not renaming physical I2C buses, this should also +mean the physical I2C bus controller 7 of the system. + +On the other hand, if the symbolic link points to another I2C bus, the I2C bus +presented by the current directory has to be a logical bus. The I2C bus pointed +by the link is the parent bus which may be either a physical I2C bus or a +logical one. In this case, the I2C bus presented by the current directory +abstracts an I2C MUX channel under the parent bus. + +For example:: + + $ readlink /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73/device + ../../i2c-7 + $ readlink /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73/mux_device + ../7-0071 + +``i2c-73`` is a logical bus fanout by an I2C MUX under ``i2c-7`` +whose I2C address is 0x71. +Whenever we access an I2C device with bus 73, the kernel will always +switch the I2C MUX addressed 0x71 to the proper channel for you as part of the +abstraction. + +Finding out Logical I2C Bus Number +---------------------------------- + +In this section, we will describe how to find out the logical I2C bus number +representing certain I2C MUX channels based on the knowledge of physical +hardware I2C topology. + +In this example, we have a system which has a physical I2C bus 7 and not renamed +in DTS. There is a 4-channel MUX at address 0x71 on that bus. There is another +8-channel MUX at address 0x72 behind the channel 1 of the 0x71 MUX. Let us +navigate through Sysfs and find out the logical I2C bus number of the channel 3 +of the 0x72 MUX. + +First of all, let us go to the directory of ``i2c-7``:: + + ~$ cd /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7 + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7$ ls + 7-0071 i2c-60 name subsystem + delete_device i2c-73 new_device uevent + device i2c-86 of_node + i2c-203 i2c-dev power + +There, we see the 0x71 MUX as ``7-0071``. Go inside it:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7$ cd 7-0071/ + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/7-0071$ ls -l + channel-0 channel-3 modalias power + channel-1 driver name subsystem + channel-2 idle_state of_node uevent + +Read the link ``channel-1`` using ``readlink`` or ``ls -l``:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/7-0071$ readlink channel-1 + ../i2c-73 + +We find out that the channel 1 of 0x71 MUX on ``i2c-7`` is assigned +with a logical I2C bus number of 73. +Let us continue the journey to directory ``i2c-73`` in either ways:: + + # cd to i2c-73 under I2C Sysfs root + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/7-0071$ cd /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73 + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ + + # cd the channel symbolic link + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/7-0071$ cd channel-1 + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/7-0071/channel-1$ + + # cd the link content + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/7-0071$ cd ../i2c-73 + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-7/i2c-73$ + +Either ways, you will end up in the directory of ``i2c-73``. Similar to above, +we can now find the 0x72 MUX and what logical I2C bus numbers +that its channels are assigned:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ ls + 73-0040 device i2c-83 new_device + 73-004e i2c-78 i2c-84 of_node + 73-0050 i2c-79 i2c-85 power + 73-0070 i2c-80 i2c-dev subsystem + 73-0072 i2c-81 mux_device uevent + delete_device i2c-82 name + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ cd 73-0072 + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73/73-0072$ ls + channel-0 channel-4 driver of_node + channel-1 channel-5 idle_state power + channel-2 channel-6 modalias subsystem + channel-3 channel-7 name uevent + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73/73-0072$ readlink channel-3 + ../i2c-81 + +There, we find out the logical I2C bus number of the channel 3 of the 0x72 MUX +is 81. We can later use this number to switch to its own I2C Sysfs directory or +issue ``i2c-tools`` commands. + +Tip: Once you understand the I2C topology with MUX, command +`i2cdetect -l +<https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/i2c-tools/i2cdetect.8.en.html>`_ +in +`I2C Tools +<https://i2c.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/I2C_Tools>`_ +can give you +an overview of the I2C topology easily, if it is available on your system. For +example:: + + $ i2cdetect -l | grep -e '\-73' -e _7 | sort -V + i2c-7 i2c npcm_i2c_7 I2C adapter + i2c-73 i2c i2c-7-mux (chan_id 1) I2C adapter + i2c-78 i2c i2c-73-mux (chan_id 0) I2C adapter + i2c-79 i2c i2c-73-mux (chan_id 1) I2C adapter + i2c-80 i2c i2c-73-mux (chan_id 2) I2C adapter + i2c-81 i2c i2c-73-mux (chan_id 3) I2C adapter + i2c-82 i2c i2c-73-mux (chan_id 4) I2C adapter + i2c-83 i2c i2c-73-mux (chan_id 5) I2C adapter + i2c-84 i2c i2c-73-mux (chan_id 6) I2C adapter + i2c-85 i2c i2c-73-mux (chan_id 7) I2C adapter + +Pinned Logical I2C Bus Number +----------------------------- + +If not specified in DTS, when an I2C MUX driver is applied and the MUX device is +successfully probed, the kernel will assign the MUX channels with a logical bus +number based on the current biggest logical bus number incrementally. For +example, if the system has ``i2c-15`` as the highest logical bus number, and a +4-channel MUX is applied successfully, we will have ``i2c-16`` for the +MUX channel 0, and all the way to ``i2c-19`` for the MUX channel 3. + +The kernel software developer is able to pin the fanout MUX channels to a static +logical I2C bus number in the DTS. This doc will not go through the details on +how to implement this in DTS, but we can see an example in: +``arch/arm/boot/dts/aspeed-bmc-facebook-wedge400.dts`` + +In the above example, there is an 8-channel I2C MUX at address 0x70 on physical +I2C bus 2. The channel 2 of the MUX is defined as ``imux18`` in DTS, +and pinned to logical I2C bus number 18 with the line of ``i2c18 = &imux18;`` +in section ``aliases``. + +Take it further, it is possible to design a logical I2C bus number schema that +can be easily remembered by humans or calculated arithmetically. For example, we +can pin the fanout channels of a MUX on bus 3 to start at 30. So 30 will be the +logical bus number of the channel 0 of the MUX on bus 3, and 37 will be the +logical bus number of the channel 7 of the MUX on bus 3. + +I2C Devices +=========== + +In previous sections, we mostly covered the I2C bus. In this section, let us see +what we can learn from the I2C device directory whose link name is in the format +of ``${bus}-${addr}``. The ``${bus}`` part in the name is a logical I2C bus +decimal number, while the ``${addr}`` part is a hex number of the I2C address +of each device. + +I2C Device Directory Content +---------------------------- + +Inside each I2C device directory, there is a file named ``name``. +This file tells what device name it was used for the kernel driver to +probe this device. Use command ``cat`` to read its content. For example:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ cat 73-0040/name + ina230 + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ cat 73-0070/name + pca9546 + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ cat 73-0072/name + pca9547 + +There is a symbolic link named ``driver`` to tell what Linux kernel driver was +used to probe this device:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ readlink -f 73-0040/driver + /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/ina2xx + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ readlink -f 73-0072/driver + /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/pca954x + +But if the link ``driver`` does not exist at the first place, +it may mean that the kernel driver failed to probe this device due to +some errors. The error may be found in ``dmesg``:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ ls 73-0070/driver + ls: 73-0070/driver: No such file or directory + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ dmesg | grep 73-0070 + pca954x 73-0070: probe failed + pca954x 73-0070: probe failed + +Depending on what the I2C device is and what kernel driver was used to probe the +device, we may have different content in the device directory. + +I2C MUX Device +-------------- + +While you may be already aware of this in previous sections, an I2C MUX device +will have symbolic link ``channel-*`` inside its device directory. +These symbolic links point to their logical I2C bus directories:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73$ ls -l 73-0072/channel-* + lrwxrwxrwx ... 73-0072/channel-0 -> ../i2c-78 + lrwxrwxrwx ... 73-0072/channel-1 -> ../i2c-79 + lrwxrwxrwx ... 73-0072/channel-2 -> ../i2c-80 + lrwxrwxrwx ... 73-0072/channel-3 -> ../i2c-81 + lrwxrwxrwx ... 73-0072/channel-4 -> ../i2c-82 + lrwxrwxrwx ... 73-0072/channel-5 -> ../i2c-83 + lrwxrwxrwx ... 73-0072/channel-6 -> ../i2c-84 + lrwxrwxrwx ... 73-0072/channel-7 -> ../i2c-85 + +I2C Sensor Device / Hwmon +------------------------- + +I2C sensor device is also common to see. If they are bound by a kernel hwmon +(Hardware Monitoring) driver successfully, you will see a ``hwmon`` directory +inside the I2C device directory. Keep digging into it, you will find the Hwmon +Sysfs for the I2C sensor device:: + + /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-73/73-0040/hwmon/hwmon17$ ls + curr1_input in0_lcrit_alarm name subsystem + device in1_crit power uevent + in0_crit in1_crit_alarm power1_crit update_interval + in0_crit_alarm in1_input power1_crit_alarm + in0_input in1_lcrit power1_input + in0_lcrit in1_lcrit_alarm shunt_resistor + +For more info on the Hwmon Sysfs, refer to the doc: + +../hwmon/sysfs-interface.rst + +Instantiate I2C Devices in I2C Sysfs +------------------------------------ + +Refer to section "Method 4: Instantiate from user-space" of instantiating-devices.rst |