You need to find out the device address of your device.
find out which device is not connected and connect your device on that bus and change the device tree to replace the device address.
You can certainly use i2c_detect and i2c_get user space tools to work with your device. However is there is a existing kernel space i2c device on that bus then it will certain lead to bus hogging problems.
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Please add information about your device and kernel version which you are trying to use. May be there is already a driver for it in open source.