Re: Finding 'orphaned' i2c drivers

[Daniel Mack <daniel-rDUAYElUppE@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:43:44PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:00:52PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 
> > it is communicating with? More specificly, I implemented a driver for a
> > Maxim clock generator and would like to use a proprietary interface with
> > it from a alsa-soc module. I just can't find a sane way to access the
> > driver's instance from there. It does exist somewhere in the linux
> > device tree, but is there a simple function that iterates over it and
> > returns it to me by name? Reading include/linux/device.h didn't point me
> > to anything that could fit.
> 
> You probably want to either have the device register with the ASoC core
> and discover it that way or have the driver be part of your machine
> driver (as the neo1973 driver does for the external amplifier).

Ok, I might miss a general thing here. All I do is add a driver which is
loaded via the module_init() mechanism and registers itself for that
specific device by name.

In the board support file, I add a list of i2c_board_infos by calling
i2s_register_board_info() and then the driver is magically instanciated
in some lower layer.

The question is: how do I access this instance at a later point? Without
messing around with static pointers, of course.

Daniel