From: Jean Delvare Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:37:40 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] I2C: Clarify the usage of i2c-dev.h X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d772e2587da3c8b0fb8610fcc1c91fd82f87e52;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git [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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 " and "#include . -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 ". 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