[i2c] I2C support - 'built-in' VS modules

Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman at lightlink.com
Thu Aug 17 14:39:41 CEST 2006


Hi Drasko:

* Drasko Draskovic <drasko.draskovic at gmail.com> [2006-08-17 14:11:07 +0200]:
> Thanks Mark,
> 
> Sounds like i2c-core is built in.  Sounds like i2c-dev is not.
> >
> in /var/log, i can see in file called messages:
> ...
> Jan  1 00:00:03 (none) user.info kernel: i2c /dev entries driver
> Jan  1 00:00:03 (none) user.debug kernel: i2c-core: driver dev_driver
> registere
> ...
> 
> So I guess these two are registred. No proc -- I can now see why... under
> /dev I can not see anything wiyh i2c? Should it be there somewhere even
> before I load adapter module and chip driver (some kind of interface that
> would be empty for now)

There will be no i2c device in /dev until you load an adapter module.

Regards,

-- 
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman at lightlink.com




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