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From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: qestion about I2C_CLASS_HWMON flag
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:44:30 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:57:56 +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
ags probably are useful, but they're are hard coded in adapters...
>
> Nothing prevents you from setting the class flags based on
> platform-specific information if you have a need for that.
>

Just to be sure, do you mean by hacking the adapter source code ?

> That being said, in cases where you have that level of information
> about which devices are present on the I2C bus,

Isn't the case for most of all embedded platforms ?

> you probably want to
> declare the I2C devices at the platform level, and not rely on probing
> at all (so .class is 0).

do you mean by using I2C_BOARD_INFO ?

Thanks
-- 
Francis