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From: nroeder@inf.ed.ac.uk (Nils Roeder)
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: userspace  dev-interface linux-2.6.7
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:25:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4278D339.3000601@inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42775670.5070709@inf.ed.ac.uk>

Jean Delvare wrote:
[snip]

 >
 > There are two i2c-dev.h files, one for kernel-space and one for
 > user-space. If you are writing a user-space tool which will access
 > /dev/i2c-*, you need the user-space version of i2c-dev.h, which is
 > distributed with lm_sensors for historical reasons, although I believe
 > the kernel-headers package has a copy as well. This version will work
 > regardless of the version of the kernel you are using.
 >
 > Hope that helps,
 > --
 > Jean Delvare
 >
that helps indeed, thanks very much.
why is this not mentioned in
linux-2.6.x/Documentation/i2c/dev-interface ?

while it is mentioned in
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/doc/developers/applications

thanks again,
   nils

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-19  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-19  6:25 userspace dev-interface linux-2.6.7 Nils Roeder
2005-05-19  6:25 ` Nils Roeder
2005-05-19  6:25 ` Nils Roeder [this message]
2005-05-19  6:25 ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-19  6:25 ` Rudolf Marek
2005-05-19  6:25 ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-19  6:25 ` Nils Roeder
2005-05-19  6:25 ` Nils Roeder
2005-05-19  6:25 ` Jean Delvare
2005-06-25 11:25 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare

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