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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2009-06-19 16:58:20 +0200
committerJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2009-06-19 16:58:20 +0200
commit99cd8e25875a109455b709b5a41d4891b8d8e58e (patch)
tree38907f3c6df0048ce0c4764a282c4a21c74aa49f /include/linux
parent35fc37f8188177e3ba3e7f99a6e3300e490e9181 (diff)
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.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/i2c.h b/include/linux/i2c.h
index 5f8157610c6..844d2662a87 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