On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:53:50 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > smbus is not really bus which provides discovering and identifying > devices on the bus. For completeness, SMBus version 2.0 actually added support for device discovery and even dynamic slave address allocation. This is explained in chapter 5, section 5.6 (SMBus Address resolution protocol). Unfortunately, this is an optional feature which requires active cooperation from each device connected to the bus. If any device on the bus supports SMBus ARP then you should get an answer when probing (7-bit) I2C address 0x61. Long ago I had a plan to add support for SMBus ARP to the kernel, but gave up because I couldn't find any system implementing it. If the accelerometer device in Dell laptops supported ARP then we could use it to figure out the device's address, unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
