From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: i2c@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why to I2c drivers not autoload like other PCI devices?
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:56:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070104005600.GA25712@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070103165020.4b277ebc@freekitty>
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:50:20PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Is there some missing magic (udev rule?) that keeps i2c device modules
> from loading? For example: the Intel i2c-i801 module ought to get loaded
> automatically on boot up since it has a set of PCI id's that generate
> the necessary module aliases. It would be better if I2C device's autoloaded
> like other PCI devices.
No, it should autoload, if it has a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() in it. In
fact, the i2c-i801 autoloads on one of my machines just fine. Are you
sure your pci ids match properly?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-04 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 0:50 Why to I2c drivers not autoload like other PCI devices? Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-04 0:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-01-04 1:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-04 5:51 ` Greg KH
2007-01-04 16:54 ` [i2c] " Jean Delvare
2007-01-04 17:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-04 19:32 ` Greg KH
2007-01-04 20:47 ` Jean Delvare
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