Re: Finding 'orphaned' i2c drivers

Mark Brown
2009-02-23T14:43:44Z

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).