Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > Two questions on i2c-isa: > > 1* Why is it that i2cdump does not work with i2c-isa? I understand that > i2cdetect cannot work (since i2c-isa isn't a real i2c bus) but i2cdump > does exactly what a chip driver could do if I'm not mistaking. > For all i2c accesses you need an i2c bus address 0x00 - 0x7f. This concept doesn't work for isa busses. > 2* Is i2c-isa broken in 2.6? The sensors-detect script says I should use > i2c-isa + via686a. I load both and have nothing in sensors. It is with > 2.6.1-rc1. It used to work with 2.4.x + i2c-2.8.x. > I reported a while back that via686a sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. Playing with rmmoding and modprobing the modules (in various combinations, including i2c-isa and i2c-core), seemed to make a difference, but I couldn't figure out what made it work or not and never got to the bottom of it.
