On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:17 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Hartley, Hello > Please send i2c-specific questions to the linux-i2c list, as specified > in MAINTAINERS. Sorry about that. > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:15:26 -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: >> Is the i2c-taos-evm bus driver broken? > > No, it works reasonably fine. I was using it myself no later than one > month ago. Out of curiosity, with which exact evaluation module do you > plan to use it? I'm not actually... I am trying to figure out how a serio driver actually gets "hooked" to a serial port. The i2c-taos-evm driver looked simple enough to play with in order to figure it out. I was trying to follow the Documentation in order to use it and ran into the issue below. >> The Documentation says to use the following to tell the kernel that >> the device is on the first serial port: >> >> # inputattach --taos-evm /dev/ttyS0 >> >> When I try that I get: >> >> inputattach: invalid mode >> >> I checked the source for inputattach on my system (Debian 5.0) and >> --taos-evm is missing. And I have not been able to locate a newer >> version of the user-space utility. >> >> Should this driver be marked broken? > > No. What is broken is input-utils' upstream. I tried submitting patches > 2.5 years ago: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=3063&atid=303063 > > As you can see, nobody took care of them. Apparently I then did not > even bother sending the one adding support for the TAOS EVM. Yeah. I did a bit of searching yesterday and it appears the user space tools development went stale around the end of the 2.4 - start of the 2.6 kernel. > The patch in question is still applied to the openSUSE version of the > input-utils package. If you have access to the openSUSE build system, > you can see it here: > https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=input-utils-add-taos-evm-support.patch&package=input-utils&project=openSUSE%3A11.0 > In case you don't, I'm attaching it too. I might add it to the patch > tracking system on sourceforge too. Not that I really expect upstream > to pick it in a timely manner, but at least other distributions would > see it and may decide to include it. > > Hope that helps, That helps. Thanks. Do you know if there is a way to make the connection in kernel? Also, do you know if there is any information on the serio stuff available anywhere? Other than just reading the kernel source I have not been able to locate anything. Thanks for the reply, Hartley -- 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
