i2c-dev

Paul Bolle pebolle at tiscali.nl
Wed Oct 22 12:35:02 EDT 2014


Having looked into this a bit, but failing to come up with something
helpful, I decided to ask some additional info.

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 21:54 -0400, John de la Garza wrote:
> I have my kernel

Which version (roughly)?

>  built with dev-i2c and i2c_i801

.config, please?

>  but do not have
> a /dev entry.
> 
> lspci shows this:
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)

What are the PCI vendor and device codes? See "lspci -nn".

> dmesg shows this:
> [    1.566003] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
> 
> ls /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ shows nothing...
> 
> on running this on a MacBookPro6,2
> 
> What am I missing?  Shouldn't I see a i2c device?  I think SMBus is
> a subset of i2c and I should be able to use that subset, right?


Paul Bolle




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