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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2005-06-25 11:37:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-07-11 23:10:37 +0200 |
| commit | 1d772e2587da3c8b0fb8610fcc1c91fd82f87e52 (patch) | |
| tree | 816702c0b2b1a37f772b8884ce2177b88af4ab73 /Documentation/i2c | |
| parent | [PATCH] I2C: Documentation fix (diff) | |
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[PATCH] I2C: Clarify the usage of i2c-dev.h
Upon suggestion by Nils Roeder, here is an update to the i2c
documentation to clarify which header files user-space applications
relying on the i2c-dev interface should include.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i2c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i2c/dev-interface | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface b/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface index a78ea62506ee..b849ad636583 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface +++ b/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface @@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ C example ========= So let's say you want to access an i2c adapter from a C program. The -first thing to do is `#include <linux/i2c.h>" and "#include <linux/i2c-dev.h>. -Yes, I know, you should never include kernel header files, but until glibc -knows about i2c, there is not much choice. +first thing to do is "#include <linux/i2c-dev.h>". Please note that +there are two files named "i2c-dev.h" out there, one is distributed +with the Linux kernel and is meant to be included from kernel +driver code, the other one is distributed with lm_sensors and is +meant to be included from user-space programs. You obviously want +the second one here. Now, you have to decide which adapter you want to access. You should inspect /sys/class/i2c-dev/ to decide this. Adapter numbers are assigned @@ -78,7 +81,7 @@ Full interface description ========================== The following IOCTLs are defined and fully supported -(see also i2c-dev.h and i2c.h): +(see also i2c-dev.h): ioctl(file,I2C_SLAVE,long addr) Change slave address. The address is passed in the 7 lower bits of the |