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@@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ This sends a single bit to the device, at the place of the Rd/Wr bit::
Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_QUICK
-SMBus Receive Byte: i2c_smbus_read_byte()
-==========================================
+SMBus Receive Byte
+==================
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_byte()
This reads a single byte from a device, without specifying a device
register. Some devices are so simple that this interface is enough; for
@@ -75,8 +77,10 @@ the previous SMBus command::
Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE
-SMBus Send Byte: i2c_smbus_write_byte()
-========================================
+SMBus Send Byte
+===============
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_byte()
This operation is the reverse of Receive Byte: it sends a single byte
to a device. See Receive Byte for more information.
@@ -88,8 +92,10 @@ to a device. See Receive Byte for more information.
Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE
-SMBus Read Byte: i2c_smbus_read_byte_data()
-============================================
+SMBus Read Byte
+===============
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_byte_data()
This reads a single byte from a device, from a designated register.
The register is specified through the Comm byte::
@@ -99,8 +105,10 @@ The register is specified through the Comm byte::
Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BYTE_DATA
-SMBus Read Word: i2c_smbus_read_word_data()
-============================================
+SMBus Read Word
+===============
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_word_data()
This operation is very like Read Byte; again, data is read from a
device, from a designated register that is specified through the Comm
@@ -115,8 +123,10 @@ available for reads where the two data bytes are the other way
around (not SMBus compliant, but very popular.)
-SMBus Write Byte: i2c_smbus_write_byte_data()
-==============================================
+SMBus Write Byte
+================
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_byte_data()
This writes a single byte to a device, to a designated register. The
register is specified through the Comm byte. This is the opposite of
@@ -129,8 +139,10 @@ the Read Byte operation.
Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_WRITE_BYTE_DATA
-SMBus Write Word: i2c_smbus_write_word_data()
-==============================================
+SMBus Write Word
+================
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_word_data()
This is the opposite of the Read Word operation. 16 bits
of data is written to a device, to the designated register that is
@@ -145,8 +157,8 @@ available for writes where the two data bytes are the other way
around (not SMBus compliant, but very popular.)
-SMBus Process Call:
-===================
+SMBus Process Call
+==================
This command selects a device register (through the Comm byte), sends
16 bits of data to it, and reads 16 bits of data in return::
@@ -157,8 +169,10 @@ This command selects a device register (through the Comm byte), sends
Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_PROC_CALL
-SMBus Block Read: i2c_smbus_read_block_data()
-==============================================
+SMBus Block Read
+================
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_block_data()
This command reads a block of up to 32 bytes from a device, from a
designated register that is specified through the Comm byte. The amount
@@ -172,8 +186,10 @@ of data is specified by the device in the Count byte.
Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_BLOCK_DATA
-SMBus Block Write: i2c_smbus_write_block_data()
-================================================
+SMBus Block Write
+=================
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_block_data()
The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes up to 32 bytes to
a device, to a designated register that is specified through the
@@ -274,8 +290,10 @@ I2C block transactions do not limit the number of bytes transferred
but the SMBus layer places a limit of 32 bytes.
-I2C Block Read: i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data()
-================================================
+I2C Block Read
+==============
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data()
This command reads a block of bytes from a device, from a
designated register that is specified through the Comm byte::
@@ -286,8 +304,10 @@ designated register that is specified through the Comm byte::
Functionality flag: I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_READ_I2C_BLOCK
-I2C Block Write: i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data()
-==================================================
+I2C Block Write
+===============
+
+Implemented by i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data()
The opposite of the Block Read command, this writes bytes to
a device, to a designated register that is specified through the