David van Moolenbroek 6331e8f845 Retire the synchronous character driver protocol
- change all sync char drivers into async drivers;
- retire support for the sync protocol in libchardev;
- remove async dev style, as this is now the default;
- remove dev_status from VFS;
- clean up now-unused protocol messages.

Change-Id: I6aacff712292f6b29f2ccd51bc1e7d7003723e87
2014-02-18 11:25:02 +01:00
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TPS65217 Driver (Power Management IC)
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Overview
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This driver is for the power management chip commonly found on the BeagleBone
and the BeagleBone Black.

Testing the Code
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Starting up an instance:

/bin/service up /usr/sbin/tps65217 -label tps65217.1.24 \
	-args 'bus=1 address=0x24'

Killing an instance:

/bin/service down tps65217.1.24