On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 08:17:41PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > 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). No, they are independent things. Just so happens that they were the same in all previous kernels :) But if it's a big pain, I can see about fixing it up to match. thanks, greg k-h
