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[v14,4/4] Documentation: jtag: Add ABI documentation

Message ID 1513268971-13518-5-git-send-email-oleksandrs@mellanox.com
State Not Applicable, archived
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Series JTAG driver introduction | expand

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Oleksandr Shamray Dec. 14, 2017, 4:29 p.m. UTC 
Added document that describe the ABI for JTAG class drivrer

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Shamray <oleksandrs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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v13->v14
v12->v13
v11->v12
Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
- rename /Documentation/ABI/testing/jatg-dev -> jtag-dev
- Typo: s/interfase/interface
v10->v11
v9->v10
Fixes added by Oleksandr:
- change jtag-cdev to jtag-dev in documentation
- update Kernel Version and Date in jtag-dev documentation;
v8->v9
v7->v8
v6->v7
Comments pointed by Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
- Added jtag-cdev documentation to Documentation/ABI/testing folder
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 Documentation/ABI/testing/jtag-dev |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/jtag-dev

Comments

Pavel Machek Feb. 11, 2018, 11:43 p.m. UTC | #1 
Hi!

> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +What:		/dev/jtag[0-9]+
> +Date:		October 2017
> +KernelVersion:	4.15
> +Contact:	oleksandrs@mellanox.com
> +Description:
> +		The misc device files /dev/jtag* are the interface
> +		between JTAG master interface and userspace.
> +
> +		The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined and documented in
> +		[include/uapi]<linux/jtag.h>.
> +
> +		The following file operations are supported:
> +
> +		open(2)
> +		The argument flag currently support only one access
> +		mode O_RDWR.
> +
> +		ioctl(2)
> +		Initiate various actions.
> +		See the inline documentation in [include/uapi]<linux/jtag.h>
> +		for descriptions of all ioctls.

I tried reading the jtag.h, and am still not sure how it works. Real docs
would be nice...

In particular, it seems to always specify read or write actiom. Sounds
like a job for read/write syscalls?
								Pavel
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/jtag-dev b/Documentation/ABI/testing/jtag-dev
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+What:		/dev/jtag[0-9]+
+Date:		October 2017
+KernelVersion:	4.15
+Contact:	oleksandrs@mellanox.com
+Description:
+		The misc device files /dev/jtag* are the interface
+		between JTAG master interface and userspace.
+
+		The ioctl(2)-based ABI is defined and documented in
+		[include/uapi]<linux/jtag.h>.
+
+		The following file operations are supported:
+
+		open(2)
+		The argument flag currently support only one access
+		mode O_RDWR.
+
+		ioctl(2)
+		Initiate various actions.
+		See the inline documentation in [include/uapi]<linux/jtag.h>
+		for descriptions of all ioctls.
+
+		close(2)
+		Stops and free up the I/O contexts that was associated
+		with the file descriptor.
+
+Users:		TBD
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