Re: rtc-ds3232 driver

Jean Delvare
2012-03-01T20:34:14Z

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 19:54:00 +0000 (UTC), Anthony Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 20:12:00 +0100,
> Wolfram Sang <w.sang-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> wrote
>
> >
> > Documentation/rtc.txt
> >
> > --=20
> Thank you. I am familiar with the /dev/rtc0 character device special
> file interface, and can access it well. My problem is that there is no
> device special file created for rtc-ds3232 module.

Odds are that the underlying I2C slave device was not instantiated.
Please read:
Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices

Note that the rtc-ds3232 driver doesn't support method 3 (presumably
the device lacks identification and thus can't be autodetected.

--
Jean Delvare