Wolfram Sang said the following: >> Could you please elaborate? > > Instead of probing you specify the devices on the i2c-bus in the dts. Example > for the pcm032 looks like this (from the kernel-tree): > > i2c@3d40 { > #address-cells = <1>; > #size-cells = <0>; > compatible = "fsl,mpc5200b-i2c","fsl,mpc5200-i2c","fsl-i2c"; > reg = <0x3d40 0x40>; > interrupts = <2 16 0>; > fsl5200-clocking; > > rtc@51 { > compatible = "nxp,pcf8563"; > reg = <0x51>; > }; > eeprom@52 { > compatible = "at24,24c32"; > reg = <0x52>; > }; > }; > > Boards which relied on probing need to have such child nodes added. Ok, that doesn't help :-( I hoped you show me a way how to set the class of adapter. My clients are loaded with insmod, so dts has no effect (or is this wrong?) The current situation is: I can't see a method beside force to instantiate a client at runtime. But force bypasses clients detect method and is deprecated anyway if I got Jean right. Currently I'm lost. Jean NACKs all attempts to do detected client instantiations at runtime, you do a NACK on making adapter working properly by indicating to patches that have no more relevance. Can't anybody help me? -- :-( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html