I never got an acknowledgement to this email: http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg143944.html The "bus" number is something that is defined as part of the hardware specification for this device. It seems we will not be able to do away with the "bus" number parameter. Joel suggested going back to the way I was originally doing it: http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg144134.html Cheers -- 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