[i2c] i2c newbie questions

Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman at lightlink.com
Wed Aug 2 15:00:54 CEST 2006


Hi Anand:

* Anand Kumar S - TLS , Chennai <sanandkumar at hcl.in> [2006-08-02 17:25:23 +0530]:
> Thanks for the help. I think I will go with the user mode driver. I guess in
> that case it will talk directly to the mcfi2c controller driver right? That
> is all the requests will be routed to this controller driver via the i2c-dev
> interface. Am I correct?

Yep.

> Also is it possible for you to point me to some example i2c user mode driver
> implementations?

Look at the userspace tools of the lm-sensors project.  They're not drivers,
but they use the i2c-dev mechanism nonetheless.

Regards,

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Mark M. Hoffman
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