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From: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
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Subject: Re: Need help to write I2C EEPROM device driver
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:21:54 +0200
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Hi Sachin,

there is already a driver for this part in the kernel 
(drivers/i2c/chips/eeprom.c). 

BTW: to do some simple reads and writes to an I2C EEPROM it is very simple to 
access the EEPROM via read/write/ioctl through /dev/i2c-<x>. No driver - only 
userland code.

Matthias


On Tuesday 26 September 2006 16:34, Sachin Rane wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am looking for an information to write a device driver to access EEPROM IC 
M24C02-WBN6.
> The EEPROM IC M24C02-WBN is present on the 'ppc440' evaluation board for 
boot strap purpose.