[i2c] How to pass board specific info to I2C driver module

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Vincent,

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:00:44 +0800, Hu Mingkai-B21284 wrote:
> I'm working on an ADC chip (MCP3021) driver under Linux 2.6.27.
> We used these two chips to monitor the CPU core current and 
> platform current individually, which is converted to voltage as 
> the ADC chip's input.
> As you know, the driver shouldn't contain the board specific info,
> such as, the chip's work voltage, the ratio of voltage and current.
> So how to pass these info to the driver module?
>  
> Here is the way I can think of:
> 1. to use dts file to pass the info to the module.
>     This way make the driver is bound to OF implement.
>  
> 2. to use the module parameter.
>     For different chips, the work voltage and the ratio may be
> different,
>     but the chip uses the same driver.
>  
> Any other idea? Please give me some advice. Thanks a lot.

Once again this question has nothing to do with I2C, so this is the
wrong mailing list. So, once again, please ask on the lm-sensors list
instead.

-- 
Jean Delvare