> The 2.6 i2c-dev bus numbers don't necessarily match i2c-adapter bus > numbers. > If you rmmod and re-insmod a bus driver, the driver seems to get its > old i2c-dev bus number back. But the i2c-adapter number increments. > Don't know why. It would be much better if they matched. > > Most userspace tools need the i2c-dev numbers since they are going > to use /dev/i2c-x devices to access the bus. > > The bus numbers reported by libsensors apps are the i2c-adapter > numbers. I think it has to be that way since we don't need i2c-dev and > therefore can't count on it being installed. > > So you can't take a bus number from 'sensors' and then take that > number and use it in 'i2cdump', for example. This is odd. Any idea how to correct this? I'm a bit lost, I don't even understand how there can be two values, since it obviously represent the same thing (i.e. a bus identifier). -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
