i2c: Document the message size limit

i2c_master_send & i2c_master_recv do not support more than 64 kb
transfer, since msg.len is u16.

Signed-off-by: Zhangfei Gao <zgao6@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index 0a74603eb671..3219ee0dbfef 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -318,8 +318,9 @@ Plain I2C communication
 These routines read and write some bytes from/to a client. The client
 contains the i2c address, so you do not have to include it. The second
 parameter contains the bytes to read/write, the third the number of bytes
-to read/write (must be less than the length of the buffer.) Returned is
-the actual number of bytes read/written.
+to read/write (must be less than the length of the buffer, also should be
+less than 64k since msg.len is u16.) Returned is the actual number of bytes
+read/written.
 
         int i2c_transfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg *msg,
                          int num);
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
index 4131698008b9..3202a86f420e 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_transfer);
  * i2c_master_send - issue a single I2C message in master transmit mode
  * @client: Handle to slave device
  * @buf: Data that will be written to the slave
- * @count: How many bytes to write
+ * @count: How many bytes to write, must be less than 64k since msg.len is u16
  *
  * Returns negative errno, or else the number of bytes written.
  */
@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_master_send);
  * i2c_master_recv - issue a single I2C message in master receive mode
  * @client: Handle to slave device
  * @buf: Where to store data read from slave
- * @count: How many bytes to read
+ * @count: How many bytes to read, must be less than 64k since msg.len is u16
  *
  * Returns negative errno, or else the number of bytes read.
  */
diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h
index 476abd09c921..0a5da639b327 100644
--- a/include/linux/i2c.h
+++ b/include/linux/i2c.h
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct i2c_board_info;
  * on a bus (or read from them). Apart from two basic transfer functions to
  * transmit one message at a time, a more complex version can be used to
  * transmit an arbitrary number of messages without interruption.
+ * @count must be be less than 64k since msg.len is u16.
  */
 extern int i2c_master_send(struct i2c_client *client, const char *buf,
                            int count);