Hi,
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:26 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you so much for help.
>
>
>> yes, if you have the proper struct i2c_driver and struct i2c_device_id in
>> your driver the i2c subsystem should call the probe of your device.
>>
>> check drivers/i2c/chips/menelaus.c for an example.
>>
>> See how I2C_BOARD_INFO() in arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-h4
>> and struct i2c_device_id have the same name for the device (menelaus).
>
> I am not using the last snapshot of Linux, but the 2.6.23 release.
> My source code is not completly up-to-date.
>
> For example there is no reference of I2C_BOARD_INFO in board-h4.
> I have no 'i2c_device_id menelaus_id[]' in the i2c drivers code.
>
> Perhap's that's why I am quite confuse, I am refering to recent code examples
> and I am using not-so-recent Linux version.
might be. Why are you using 2.6.23 and not 2.6.26 ?
Anyways, in 2.6.23 there was no i2c_device_id, so you can drop that comment.
But if you have to give the same name in the driver and in the i2c_board_info().
something like:
struct i2c_board_info *info[] =
{
>
>
> In the documentation, "New-style" drivers are presented very quickly.
> In fact, I still don't know where must be located the valid client list:
> - in the board init source code with I2C_BOARD_INFO() macro
> - in the i2c driver source code
>
>
>> no, i2c layer will call device probe based on the driver name being the same
>> in
>> i2c_board_info and i2c_device_id (if I'm not wrong that's the match,
>> Jean correct
>> me if I'm wrong).
>>
>
> With my Linux version, i2c_device_id list was not present in the i2c_driver
> structure. So i2c_board_info is supposed to match with what ?
>
>
>> That's old style i2c driver. You don't need that anymore ;-)
>
> Cool :)
> Lines removed !
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Légion.
>
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