Scott,
Your clock is off by a significant number of days, isn't it?
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 18:41:51 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> The i2c_dev module is missing the char-major-89-* alias that would cause
> it to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This patch
> adds the alias.
Why not, however this is pretty pointless nowadays as /dev nodes tend
to be created dynamically by udev, so there is no way i2c-dev will
auto-load.
> Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
> index 7e13d2d..f3f83ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
> @@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Frodo Looijaard <frodol@xxxxxx> and "
> "Simon G. Vogl <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("I2C /dev entries driver");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR(I2C_MAJOR);
>
> module_init(i2c_dev_init);
> module_exit(i2c_dev_exit);
--
Jean Delvare
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