On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Hans Verkuil<hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For video4linux we sometimes need to probe for a single i2c address.
> Normally you would do it like this:
Why does video4linux need to probe to find i2c devices? Can't the
address be determined by knowing the PCI ID of the board?
>
> static const unsigned short addrs[] = {
> addr, I2C_CLIENT_END
> };
>
> client = i2c_new_probed_device(adapter, &info, addrs);
>
> This is a bit awkward and I came up with this macro:
>
> #define V4L2_I2C_ADDRS(addr, addrs...) \
> ((const unsigned short []){ addr, ## addrs, I2C_CLIENT_END })
>
> This can construct a list of one or more i2c addresses on the fly. But this
> is something that really belongs in i2c.h, renamed to I2C_ADDRS.
>
> With this macro we can just do:
>
> client = i2c_new_probed_device(adapter, &info, I2C_ADDRS(addr));
>
> Comments?
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
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