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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2009-06-19 16:58:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2009-06-19 16:58:20 +0200 |
| commit | 99cd8e25875a109455b709b5a41d4891b8d8e58e (patch) | |
| tree | 38907f3c6df0048ce0c4764a282c4a21c74aa49f /include/linux | |
| parent | 35fc37f8188177e3ba3e7f99a6e3300e490e9181 (diff) | |
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i2c: Add a sysfs interface to instantiate devices
Add a sysfs interface to instantiate and delete I2C devices. This is
primarily a replacement of the force_* module parameters implemented
by some i2c drivers. These module parameters were implemented
internally by the I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD* macros, which don't scale well.
This can also be used when developing a driver on a self-soldered
board which doesn't yet have proper I2C device declaration at the
platform level, and presumably for various debugging situations.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/i2c.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h index 5f8157610c64..844d2662a875 100644 --- a/include/linux/i2c.h +++ b/include/linux/i2c.h @@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ struct i2c_driver { * @driver: device's driver, hence pointer to access routines * @dev: Driver model device node for the slave. * @irq: indicates the IRQ generated by this device (if any) - * @detected: member of an i2c_driver.clients list + * @detected: member of an i2c_driver.clients list or i2c-core's + * userspace_devices list * * An i2c_client identifies a single device (i.e. chip) connected to an * i2c bus. The behaviour exposed to Linux is defined by the driver |